In the Shadow of Vesuvius

[@Jollyprez]

I lived in Naples from 1981 to 1984 - on my morning drive to work, on the Tangenziale, coming out of the tunnel, Vesuvius was right in front of you, the sun coming up nearby - and always smoking. One was not to forget its presence in the conscience of EVERY Napolitano. I visited both Pompeii and Herculaneum on several occasions, and the remarkable preservation left me with several things to remember - First, the streets were very narrow, with crosswalks that elevated the pedestrian above the street level - the rocks had cuts in them to allow the standard-width carts to pass through unhampered. Another thing was how small everything was - the people of that era were at least a foot shorter than my 6'3". The fast-food establishments on the corners, and the numerous - titillating signs posted around, er, pointing to other establishments. Floor mosaics, and walls painted to look like they were outside. All under the literal shadow of Vesuvius.

[@vittoriodimeglio8564]

On a clear day I can see Vesuvius from the hill behind my house. Sometimes I think of what it must have looked like to Pliny The Elder, I have pretty much the same vantage point. Thanks HG for a great reminder of my local history.

[@whiterabbit-wo7hw]

Thank you from Missouri USA.

[@jimc.goodfellas]

Wow thats something else

[@briangarrow448]

As a young man, I lived near the volcano in Washington state, Mount Saint Helens when the mountain erupted. My family had friends who lost vacation homes along the Toutle River. We had camped at the mountain often, and swam in Spirit Lake and stayed at the lodge. It was an exciting time to be alive! I still get chills down my spine when I read the accounts of the USGS scientists who died on the day the mountain blew. RIP - David Johnston.

[@mhschmidt01]

Herculaneum has been discovered to have a library of scrolls owned by a wealthy resident. Presently modern archeological work is going to discover how to preserve & read these papyrus scrolls without destroying them. This might make a interesting story for our History Guy.

[@wjcorrinne4052]

I’ve watched on NOVA on PBS that MRIs are being employed to decipher the script on ancient scrolls. I think those were copper scrolls but it may be now used on papyrus. Interesting program if you get a chance to see it.

[@cobeer1768]

Didnt they find indoor plumbing in that structure? Or in a close by home.

[@lynnwood7205]

The house held a vast private library and is believed to have been that of the clan from which Julius Caesar came.

[@lkgreenwell]

I’m fascinated by this - imagine what could be found? Caesar’s Latin Grammar, for instance, or all nine volumes of Sappho!

[@kscorp5176]

Ohhhhh this excites me! C'mon archeologists - work a miracle and give us some new classics!!!

[@journeylady]

When visiting Italy, I was much more interested in seeing Herculaneum than Pompeii. I wanted to see the boathouses and I was not disappointed. Incredible the amount of preservation at Herculaneum.

[@TheBlueB0mber]

I remember my Latin teacher talking about this. I still would very much like to visit one day! Glad to hear your trip went so well.

[@mikelawlor1533]

The same. Herculaneum was awe. Wish those old places had covers over them

[@GUNNER67akaKelt]

I saw a video about Herculaneum here on youtube. What I found most interesting was the preserved furniture. Seeing things from that time period that we ourselves might have in our homes... idk, it brought a closer perspective to the people then. From hundreds of years in the past but not so very different from us.

[@chiefpontiac1800]

I had the pleasure of going to Hawaii in 2019 and walked upon Kilauea's remains. It was nothing but moonscape and still quite hot. The smell of sulfur filled the air and you could look down crevice's and still see molten lava. I have also been to New Zealand to see the sulfur pits and bubbling mud. Man can build what he wants to build, but in the end, Mother earth owns us all. Again HG, a fine story to end the week with !

[@hmmmmm64]

I visited Pompeii in the summer 5 years ago and as I was approaching the town, I noticed it was very overcast and dim daylight. I kept asking myself where is Vesuvius? I can't see Vesuvius. When we got to Pompeii, I looked straight up and it wasn't overcast at all. Vesuvius was so huge, it blocked out the sun. Definitely in the shadow. A very humbling moment.

[@jimgraham6722]

Strange, Pompeii is south of Vesuvius.

[@kevinmccarthy1076]

@@jimgraham6722 My house faces north, during the winter the north side is in the shadow of my house, during the summer, part of the south side is in the shadow of my house. The earth tilts, it's not just an east to west thing.

[@cme2cau]

This sounds more like Herculaneum. Pompeii is a fair way south of Vesuvius, but at Herculaneum, Vesuvius looms in the east. I had a sobering realisation that I was walking up Vesuvius to get back to Ercolano Stavi railway station. It is astonishing how far down the boat sheds are from the present surface, and that the coastline is 400m west of them now.

[@chrikeel]

I would love to see a video about the 1889 Johnstown, PA flood. There were so many villains, and heroes that have been forgotten. There were amazing rescues, tragic deaths, and abject generosity shown to this town that it may never be paralleled in our society.

[@jimgraham6722]

During the Third Servile War around 73BC Spartacus took refuge on top of Mount Vesuvius. At that time it had a much higher peak, described as a flat barren summit with little or no crater. Contemporary pictures show cliffs around the summit. The eruption in 79AD apparently blew off the mountain top, perhaps shortening the mountain by as much as 3000'.

[@rickintexas1584]

I was in Italy 3 years ago. We had the chance to tour Pompeii. It was awesome.

[@johndavis6119]

Every time I watch an episode I learn something. Even about events I lived through or thought I was familiar with. Just goes to show you’re never too old to learn . Keep up the good work.

[@tvideo1189]

I visited Herculaneum. Went there instead of Pompeii just because it was the lesser known of the two places. It was a remarkable site.

[@PaulCotterCanada]

And Herculaneum is a lot quieter. I would recommend it over Pompeii.

[@tvideo1189]

@@PaulCotterCanada Yep. Almost all the tourists want to see Pompeii. We had a great day with a very good guide, an Italian archeologist working the site.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

When I took 6 years of Latin in High School and College at one point we read Pliny the Younger. The description would have been terrifying to witness

[@davidmurphy8190]

Hooray for Latin class.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

@@davidmurphy8190 Yes it was great and fun

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I started 50 years ago and I can still read it except for formal inscriptions I get the gist of it but I couldn't do a formal translation.

[@ltlbuddha]

There is a museum in Malibu, California called The Getty Villa that is based on a villa in Herculaneum. It is filled with classical art

[@costantinovolpe2092]

I have visited both sites and while Pompeii was fascinating I found Herculaneum more interesting. The 300 skeletons in the boat houses left me pondering my mortality

[@oldfrend]

my favorite and most haunting story of pompeii; appropriate since it's almost halloween: when they first began digging through the ash, the excavation team kept finding these voids deep below the surface. at first they thought it was from hot gasses trapped underneath the flow, but they kept finding them. then one of the archaeologists had an insight - they were all at ground level at the time of the eruption, so he told the diggers, the next one they find, stop the moment they break into it and go get him (or her, i don't remember who the scientist was). when they did, he carefully poured cement into the void and left it to dry. after it dried he told them to clear the ash around the cement. his insight was right. the voids were the three-dimensional castings of people trapped and buried by the pyroclastic flow. the cement took the form of the void, which was that of a person's last moments as they were burned beyond death, to blackened carbon that decayed over the millenia to leave behind an impression of their last moments of horror, trapped in the ash. today you can go to pompeii and see these concretions of its last citizens strewn about the city and remember; this wasn't just a city that died, but thousands of human lives.

[@larrybomber83]

Never heard about the other cities. I feel so much smarter now. Thank You.

[@ryanclark-lf8db]

To this day I was totally unaware that other cities had been effected thank you for telling me about this!

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋,how are you doing today? Hope you had a good day?❤️❤️

[@gutspraygore]

I've always been impressed with the accuracy of the description of the eruption. Back then, you'd imagine the accounts would be full of superstition and religious interpretations. However, that wasn't so. They truly told the story as best as they could. And we know this because the eruption of Krakatoa was a very well documented cataclysmic event and the descriptions of both match.

[@cme2cau]

I am fortunate to have visited both Pompeii and Herculaneum, and to have taken the walking trail to the top of Vesuvius. The scale of Pompeii is impressive, but the resort like nature of Herculaneum makes it my favourite. I particularly remember the wooden items, a decorated door, and a capstan, rope still wound around it, all charred.

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋,how are you doing today? Hope you had a good day?❤️❤️!

[@HM2SGT]

Vesuvius. Pompeii. Etna. It's amazing that tourists are so casual about crawling up to the craters of these monsters

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋,how are you doing today? Hope you had a good day?❤️❤️

[@bkohatl]

I have seen photos of Octavian/Augustus home near Vesuvius in Nola, where he died in 14 AD. They hope to open his home for tourists in a few years, that will be a must-do stop on anyone's visit Naples/Pompeii/Herculaneum. Now, thanks to an inscription in a graphite pencil on a wall, historians no longer believe it was August 79 AD, but mid October 79 AD. Pliny can be forgiven, he used August as the date referring back 25 years.

[@stischer47]

Pliny could have been using the older Roman calendar dates before the addition of July and August when October was the 8th month.

[@harryborsalino1276]

Excellent episode, Sir! One of your great stories that DIDN'T involve pirates! I've been fascinated by volcanoes since I was a little kid. I remember seeing Spartacus back then and wondering how they could camp on Vesuvius...somehow it seemed like it should always be erupting. Thanks as always, THG!

[@stelladonaconfredobutler9459]

the J. Paul Getty Villa Museum in Malibu, CA is a replica of an ancient Roman villa in Herculaneum called The Villa of the Papyri (Italian: Villa dei Papiri, also known as Villa dei Pisoni). It is stunning and has a traditional outdoor stage whose performances are magical and mostly Greek and Roman plays complete with the choruses to the side. The whole villa and its rooms house the Getty's Roman, Greek and Etruscan art. It's a wondrous visit into a past world. and the murals!

[@The4cr055]

There is an ongoing project to digitally unroll the carbonized scrolls recovered from a villa in Herculaneum. They've made some progress but it's slow going. Just imagine, those scrolls might be any one of those oft mentioned lost works.

[@jamieholtsclaw2305]

Which lost works are you meaning?

[@MagruderSpoots]

@@jamieholtsclaw2305 My Ebay orders.

[@paulmentzer7658]

We do not know, it could include the third Homer take, "The returns". We know of it, we have parts but most has been lost. It is the story of how the rest of the Greek soldiers returned to their homes from Troy. The Library today consist of ashes of the Linen they were written on. It is believed it may be able to read what was written if we are careful on how to do so. Other lost works may be in the library but efforts have been careful for if not to careful the ashes will be destroyed. This may be our last chance to recover those lost works.

[@-jeff-]

Having seen Vesuvius from the air I can well appreciate not being around when it decides to blow it's top.

[@ericslappendel3868]

i visited pompay during early1970.it was very interesting.i believe lately a lot of excavation have bee done

[@simplepixel5617]

I never have enough of Pompeii and Herculaneum. I visit them every time I go to Italy and will many times again in the future since there is always something that you missed or was newly excavated.

[@steven2212]

I lived in Naples, and spent a lot of time in these cities. It is both moving and fascinating. You do them all a great justice with your descriptions and history. Thank you

[@CarDocBabaPhilipo]

Had the privilege of visiting Pompeii in 1971 along with Rome. As a 13 year old boy the visit made ‘history come alive...’ as we heard the stories from local tour guides. The images of Pompeii and the area are forever etched in my mind. Thank you History Guy for the reminder of a time of discovery for a young boy...

[@jimd8008]

Thank you again. Enjoy your shows

[@bradhatcher]

Those paintings are amazing

[@captainskippy6622]

Back in the late 60s when I was in middle school I read a book about Pompeii. In that book was a picture of a dog eating a cookie that had been cast by the ash. For some reason I never forgot that picture and about eight years ago my wife and I were able to do a three week tour of Italy. We visited Pompeii and finally in a glass case I saw that ash cast of the dog with the cookie. I have a picture of it but I wish I had that book to go with it. The Italian gentleman that toured us around that day had actually been involved with excavations back there in the 60s and 70s when he was in college. He had a wealth of knowledge. Also he pointed out that the whole town of Pompeii had numerous houses of ill repute and that the town was basically set up for that type of trade.

[@darrellsmith4204]

What I found most interesting was the description of the cloud as "like a pine tree". I'm thinking of the classic triangle Xmas tree shape and thinking "that's odd", then THG shows that pine trees in that area are umbrella shaped..

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋,how are you doing today? Hope you had a good day?❤️❤️

[@darrellsmith4204]

@@amytaylor8487 It was okay. Yourself?

[@amytaylor8487]

@@darrellsmith4204 good to hear that. My day was good thank you. Where are you from?

[@darrellsmith4204]

@@amytaylor8487 Wisconsin. You?

[@amytaylor8487]

@@darrellsmith4204 nice place. I’m originally from New York but I live in VA. How’s the weather there today?

[@franknicholson6108]

such an explosive episode. Thanks for the history I was not taught in school. Thanks

[@thefrontporch8594]

I used to live in that area, and it is truly a magical area!!!

[@DonMachado]

The lack of notoriety of Herculaneum and Misenum may have saved them from all the tourist damage that Pompeii has suffered.

[@juanelorriaga2840]

As always amazing vid and I was just reading that they found new remains in Pompeii few weeks back

[@earllutz2663]

Thank you again [ THG ]. I remember studying about Vasuvius in school., in the 1950's and the 1960's.

[@spookerd]

There's a manga called Plinivs that heavily involves Pliny and the eruption of Vesuvius. Pretty good read for a historical manga.

[@em1osmurf]

the sad state of college. i learned more about ancient greek/alexandrian era history in 20 minutes than i did in a $6k course. wonderful vid, THG.

[@memathews]

As a resident of Portland, near Mt St Helens, I can imagine the awe and panic a full on explosion of Vesuvius might generate, especially when a speeding freight train of pyroclastic flow destroys everything in it's path on the way to where you might be standing. I've been to Italy the times now and never visited Naples or those ancient buried cities. Next visit I'll make a point to get there.

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋,how are you doing today? Hope you had a good day?❤️❤️!

[@RetiredSailor60]

When I was deployed to the Mediterranean from August 1995 to February 1996 on USS Whidbey Island LSD 41, the ship was supposed to have spent Christmas in Naples. I had tour scheduled for Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius but the crisis in Bosnia cancelled those plans.

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋,how are you doing today? Hope you had a good day?❤️❤️

[@RetiredSailor60]

@@amytaylor8487 Good evening to you as well. I am fine. My day was good. How are you??

[@amytaylor8487]

@@RetiredSailor60 good evening. Nice. My day was good thank you. Where are you from ??

[@RetiredSailor60]

@@amytaylor8487 Ft Worth TX. You??

[@amytaylor8487]

@@RetiredSailor60 nice place. I’m originally from New York but I live in VA. How’s the weather there today?

[@johnadams2313]

Had the opportunity to visit Pompeii in 2000. Seeing the areas uncovered and the displays was incredible. But lurking nearby was Mount Vesuvius which made you hope it stayed quiet a little longer. To see everything was incredible but made you think about what happened in 79 AD..

[@Ritabug34]

As a kid I only knew about pompeii never knew about Herculaneum or Stabiae

[@davidmurphy8190]

Latin class and Ancient History taught me that in the late 1960s.

[@kscorp5176]

I'd never heard of Stabaei before now - thank you History Guy!

[@pontiacfan76]

Got to see the castings from Pompeii when they had a exhibit come through St.Louis. Definitely a interesting to see.

[@janehall2720]

I saw it in Philadelphia. Amazing

[@pontiacfan76]

@@janehall2720 did they have the "simulation " of the eruption?

[@janehall2720]

@@pontiacfan76 no I don't remember seeing that. The figures really struck hard.

[@shanesnider8645]

there are several awesome tours you can enjoy when visiting that area. cheers from Texas!

[@RetiredSailor60]

Greetings from Ft Worth TX

[@donaldhume136]

Much love from Columbus Ohio

[@shanesnider8645]

Galveston Island here!

[@RetiredSailor60]

@@shanesnider8645 My brother lives on 67th St.

[@shanesnider8645]

I literally live of of 69th! hahaha small world

[@kevinburke7073]

I went to Pompeii and Herculaneum in the early '80s . There was much more to see at Herculaneum. Perhaps because it was buried much deeper.

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋,how are you doing today? Hope you had a good day?❤️❤️!

[@haydenbsiegel]

Cover the Business Plot! There is a historical marker regarding it inside the secret hide out of some of the members Bush Hotel in Dallas Texas. When my mom read their biography she found out about the plot and it was mentioned that they met at the Bush Hotel. So she took us there on a day trip and sure enough there is a hidden bar with a little historical plaque inside commemorating the who drama.

[@jimthvac100]

Love the way you tell these history stories. You make them very interesting which keeps my attention.

[@wanderingjana891]

I've been to most of the open archaeological sites around Vesuvius. One of the great things about Pompeii is that they rotate the open villas and buildings so each time you go, you can see different areas. I've been 4 times and see something new each time. I've also been to Herculaneum, Stabiae and Oplontis. All are wonderful.

[@fft2020]

OMFG! The Nord vpn segway was legendary! "you don't want pirates remembering your BROWSER history"

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

I have items that were recovered from Pompeii and Herculaneum. I have an emphora coins

[@RobinMarks1313]

This topic is kind of ominous considering the ongoing eruption in the Canary Islands. La Palma has been erupting for a month, with no signs of stopping. The earthquakes are increasing and there's a new magma injection. I'm hoping there's no explosive events and the lava just keeps flowing to the ocean....

[@davidedbrooke9324]

Vesuvius is swelling and fumaroles are surfacing. Potential next outlets for lava.

[@RobinMarks1313]

@@davidedbrooke9324 So, that makes two Italian volcanoes restless. Vulcano has become restless in the last week. "Due to elevated emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) from ground and finding dead animals, a small number of families has been evacuated from the village as reported volcanologist Marco Pistolesi on his twitter account. The volcano observatory INGV raised the alert level for the volcano to "yellow" about two weeks ago, as increase of volcanic tremor and elevated fumarolic activity has been recorded."

[@davidedbrooke9324]

@@RobinMarks1313 seems to be every where, Etna and Stromboli too!

[@goodun2974]

All of the potential eruptions mentioned here would pale compared to the destruction that will occur when Yellowstone erupts, someday. Could be tomorrow, could be ten thousand days from now. When she blows, it'll likely end our civilization as we know it ---- if we don't do something stupid that ends civilization by our own hand first.

[@RobinMarks1313]

@@goodun2974 Yellowstone won't erupt tomorrow. I've been watching the seismographs for the last twelve years. At the moment, Yellowstone is not experiencing any real uplift, there are very few swarms of earthquakes, and there are no unusual thermal activity portending doom. She's quiet at the moment. Maybe next week, if there's a drastic change. But for now there's no worries...

[@teresapyeatt3698]

I'd love to see a video on the red ball express to include not only the truck mission but rail service once it was up and running and how it changed the rate of supply transportation and how important it was to the war efforts of the European War efforts in World War 2. Thank you for the consideration

[@jimfranchetto3278]

Well done! Thank you.

[@johnzengerle7576]

I have seen a preserved house from thousands of years earlier. The pre-historic house preserves the wattle and daub walls, a pet dog, and food in ceramic vessels.

[@donaldreach760]

My uncle, Joseph Brand, served in supply with the U.S. Army stationed in Rome during WWII. He brought home a Rome newspaper featuring a picture of a B-25 Mitchel flying over the crater of My. Vesuvius. A few years later, Uncle Joe became a priest in the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia.

[@donaldhume136]

How can someone dislike any of his vids, they must not like history!

[@D-Rock420]

Contrary to popular belief, a dislike is actually still a positive thing for the content creator. It is activity on the channel, thumbs up, thumbs down, comments, replies, that generates the algorithm for the recommended feeds. A dislike from a random bot or troll does more good for the channel, than bad. Edit: but I still liked your comment, because, well, lance deserves it! 😆

[@MaskedVengeanceTV]

Nine people still live under the shadow of Vesuvius

[@robertgiles9124]

Idiots who never do anything are aways jealous of those who make nice things. It's the dark side on YT.

[@donaldhume136]

@@robertgiles9124 lol. I like that one my friend

[@evillyn7895]

Informative AND interesting. Thanks History Guy!

[@62forged]

Thanks for another great video.

[@VernonWallace]

Great information. Thank you

[@jw9737]

I've been waiting for your take on Vesuvius! My dream is to visit Pompeii and Herculaneum. Thank you!

[@navret1707]

I have been in Sicily when Mt. Etna erupted and it was impressive. It was, however, nothing compared to Mt. Vesuvius. I’d hate to see that one blow.

[@robertgiles9124]

Etna has been erupting for decades but not often large eruptions. I liked in Catania in 1963 and we could see the trickle glow from our 6th floor Apt.

[@Linuxpunk81]

When I was on the USS San Juan SSN-751 doing a med run back on 2002-2003 I remember seeing the clouds from the periscope monitor.

[@navret1707]

@@robertgiles9124 - In 1978 (?) I experienced my first earthquake there when Etna erupted. It wasn’t much of a quake, if you weren’t sitting down you probably wouldn’t have noticed it. Drove up to play stupid tourist and got cut off by a lava flow and had to go around to the other side of the mountain. Ah, the days when you’re young, bullet proof and stupid.

[@djolley61]

The novel, Pompeii, by Robert Harris is a good read, and, of course, Mark Twain's humorous account of his visit to Pompeii and Vesuvius in The Innocents Abroad.

[@Valtrach]

Thank you. Have a good day.

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋,how are you doing today? Hope you had a good day?❤️❤️!

[@derekbowbrick6233]

Would be nice to see a future vid about the dig at Herculanium.

[@ronriesinger7755]

Walking through the ruins of Pompeii, one has the fullest sense of what daily life was like in a Roman city. My family and I spent much of a day exploring the city. Thanks for expanding our knowledge of the subject!

[@theamerican8337]

lol he said...Poomis. Long time sub love your videos. Keep it up thank you

[@carolynhotchkiss4760]

When I was 10 my family took a cruise of the Mediterranean. We put into Naples and did a tour of Pompeii. It was very eerie to a 10 year old (they had the body casts on display). Of course, what our whole family remembers the most is that my mother's watch was stolen off her wrist at some point during the tour. We have pictures of her with watch and then...without watch. And she didn't notice until my dad asked her what time it was! Those thieves were *slick*!

[@diamondtiara84]

Love those trees! (7:55)

[@grapeshot]

Pompeii was devastated by an earthquake about 17 years prior to the 79 CE eruption. The damage was so great that a lot of it hadn't been repaired by the time of the eruption.

[@rockdean1]

Thanks didn't know that

[@TheDoctor1225]

@@rockdean1 I'd wager a lot don't, just as they don't know as much about the two towns buried that he speaks of, because of Pompeii overshadowing it after the town was destroyed in the eruption of 79 AD.

[@goodoldbubba6620]

I have to hand it to you. Credit where it is due. Each time you do your own commercials, you do so with class!

[@trusarmor4957]

last time i was this early .. it wasnt even history

[@karlish8799]

Thanks for another sweet vid THG. Really enjoy your choice of subjects 👌👍.

[@johndavis9432]

Another triumph Lance !! Keep up the great work!!

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋,how are you doing today? Hope you had a good day?❤️❤️!

[@amytaylor8487]

@@johndavis9432 it’s you lol

[@johndavis9432]

@@amytaylor8487 Thanks beautiful and I'm fine.I hope that you're well today.

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

Back in the Saddle again!

[@andrewwmacfadyen6958]

Visiting Herculaneum is one of the most touching experiences more so than Pompeii because it is more complete and on a smaller scale, in Pompeii the buildings of interest are more spread out and the destruction was almost complete The site of Pompeii became colonised by stray and feral dogs "the dogs of Pompeii" some of which are descended from survivors of the eruption.

[@grapeshot]

Without a doubt Mount Vesuvius must be one of the most homicidal volcanoes in history. My grandfather was over in Italy in World War II and he talked about Mount Vesuvius when it erupted in 1944.

[@pattonpending7390]

I think Tambora and Krakatoa would take issue with that statement :). Tambora killed almost 100,000 people in 1806, compared to a total of about 10,000 for all the eruptions from Vesuvius...

[@grapeshot]

@@pattonpending7390 they can take issue with it, like I said Mount Vesuvius is one of the most homicidal volcanoes in history.

[@jamesmitchell4461]

Homicidal volcano you mean killed other volcanoes genocide volcano would be more apt

[@Onewheelordeal]

@@jamesmitchell4461 lol thank you, now I'm wondering if one volcano ever destroyed another in history

[@rynecjohnston]

@@pattonpending7390 Regarding Krakatoa, among the over 36,000 people that died in the 1883 eruption was a group of 4,500 people that died when a pyroclastic flow swept OVER the sea over 40 km away. You couldn't escape the destruction by even being on a different island.

[@whitedomerobert]

It’s true the distraction of Pompeii, being accessible may have saved for our time the fragile carbonized wooded remnants of tracery, bed frames, screens, not considered valuable by treasure hunters but are the real gold of history.

[@jaapdejonge9717]

Good you changed the name from Forgotten history to History that deserves to be remembered. History is not forgotten, not everybody might know about it. We can't know everything. So pointing about a particular event that happened in a certain place is certainly not forgotten there as they have monuments, it is just not known to the general public. That does not make it forgotten.

[@johnwren3976]

When visiting Pompeii and Herculaneum spend the money and hire a docent at the entrance to give you a personal tour. It will add great value and insight to what happened but more so to how the people lived. It brings it to life. Our docent was university history professor. Dont miss Herculaneum. Pompeii was crushed by falling ash and debris. Herculaneum was not. Most buildings are standing and some have clay vessels still inside. There's also graffiti on the walls in both cities, some humorous. Be sure to rub the phalluses to ward off the evil eye.

[@evanames5940]

Another good learning event

[@wardaddyindustries4348]

Lol great transition to the ad long day at work and I think that's the first laugh I got thanks you. 🤣

[@frankgulla2335]

Thank you for a wonderful summary of that tragic day in 79AD

[@gild2604]

A lot of ancient maps from 15's show Pompeii,, also, there is a plank say that the mountain erupted in 1631...

[@gild2604]

@Sean Brogan 1500's

[@dbmail545]

The mountain may blow someday but it grows fine vines today.

[@fauxhound5061]

Awesome video! I think your videos would benefit from the chapters feature in KZbin. Where the video segmented to relevant parts. It'd make going back to a certain info much faster.

[@markw4263]

I’ve been to Herculaneum, it’s an amazing place.

[@davidfryer9218]

I'm curious. You mentioned 480 degrees. How was that temperature derived? Perhaps from the state of the remaining Rock?

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋,how are you doing today? Hope you had a good day?❤️❤️

[@joeandrews429]

Can you do a video about Cincinnati? There is a lot of rich, underrated history associated with the Queen City. The Underground Railroad, brewing and prohibition, the Cincinnati subway…..Home to the first professional baseball team and fire department in the nation. Plenty of history that deserves to be remembered!

[@davidmurphy8190]

Allentown, PA is also called Queen City. I wonder why?

[@bobconnor1210]

Modern day Ercolano sits atop Herculaneum which is being incrementally excavated as the land parcels above are condemned. Might as well explore and enjoy it now before Vulcan speaks again.

[@billlink7116]

My dad served in WWII and was serving in a valley below Mt. V. They were ordered to leave before it erupted and covered the valley. I have a coin he brought home, embedded in lava from the eruption.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Herculaneum is on my bucket list along with Florence and Venice, if it's not completely under water by then ☹

[@meenki347]

Many years ago, I had read that Pompeii was covered with ash several days before the actual eruption. And I wondered why everyone didn't leave. Now, I've been watching the eruption on La Palma. It's also covered with ash and people are still going to the bars and won't leave. What could go wrong? Just the video I wanted to see!

[@sreggird60]

When I was stationed in Sicily years ago one of the Italian military police officers had a sister who worked in the digs at Pompeii and she would give us tours of the city.

[@MarshOakDojoTimPruitt]

thanks

[@ellsworth1956]

Vesuvius shares the magma chamber with the Super Volcano Campi Flegrei . Let's Build Naples between them! What could go wrong?

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋,how are you doing today? Hope you had a good day?❤️❤️!

[@marvinegreen]

For 2 yrs at the naval support base in Naples, I could look out my office window and see Mt Vesuvius about 20 miles away.

[@thomasb1889]

I knew of Herculaneum but not Stabiae so The History Guy once again strikes with new information for me.