Pompeii INSIDE The City That Was BURIED ALIVE
hello everybody I'm Chris Provost and you're watching Provost park pass and today's video is crazy because Amanda Miles and I had an amazing opportunity to go to Italy Italy we were in Italy for about a week and the very first day that we were there we went to Pompeii and I made a really cool video but as I started editing a video I realized I got to explain some stuff because I was so overwhelmed with what was happening in Pompeii that I I just didn't even record it so I need to make this explanation before you start watching this cool cool video now for you young ones who might not be aware of what Pompeii is Pompeii was a city right by the ocean in Italy it's thriving City and in 79 ad like almost 2,000 years ago this giant volcano called Mount vus erupted and the volcano was about six miles away from Pompei when it erupted it was a massive explosion all the lava started coming down and a bunch of people from Pompei they ran away but then they saw that the lava was just coming down down the mountain and they're like oh they thought they were going to be safe and they went back to their city of Pompei and that was a huge mistake cuz what happened is that this volcano shot all this ash in the air and this ash started coming down and when it started coming down it was coming down at between 50 to 70 miles an hour and it just landed on the on the people there and everybody there they all died and what happened was this ash started pounding down on the people and it was about 15 ft of Ash so look up at the ceiling in the room that you're in right now your ceiling's probably 8 maybe 10 or maybe 12T tall the ash came all the way up to about 15 ft tall it completely covered the city of Pompei completely covering it and what happened is that Ash compacted and ended up coming forming like a solid type of rock well all the bodies and people and all things that are in Pompei they ended up like decaying and when the Pompei was discovered at in around 1500 1500 years later as they were digging Excavating it they realized there were these Caverns where the bodies want to work and they would pour like plaster Paras in and it would preserve the bodies so they discovered Pompei in 1500 then they really started Excavating it around the 1700s a little bit here they kind of luded the city but then they really began Excavating it around the 19th the 19th century the city was completely preserved like completely preserved like there there was still bread in the oven there's things going on they daily like their City daily life was completely preserved now I am going to show you what Pompei was completely like and it's absolutely amazing because most times when they have an archaeological site it's degradated over years like hundreds of years this it was like boom within a few hours the city was covered and it was preserved in time and so it's like we're going back in time machine looking what pompe was like in 79 ad let's do it hey everybody I'm here in Pompei Italy right behind me those are the ruins of the city of Pompei now Pompei was a Seaside City and it was right on the ocean now the ocean's about 2 miles away because after the volcano erupted it changed the landscape but the people here um they died almost instantly theot it was the ash that killed them all right so I want to show you this this is cool this is a house you notice that we we a very thin entrance there but it goes out back here you'll see right here at the entrance there's like a little stall here this is where the merchants would to sell stuff cuz right here but then come right to here this is the actual house you walk in the house and you'll see right there that is the Basin for water and this would be a two-story building and the top stories would build a wood and when it rain they're slanted so the rain would come in and drop in the Basin that's where they cool them off and then if you were very wealthy you would have a garden see that little area there look like a garden and they could go out there to cool them themselves off they have trees and and stuff to cool down and this would have been a two-story building but the second story was all built with wood so when the ash fell down it was too hot it burned everything away immediately but you'll notice that right here is the entrance to the house and there's another little spot here where they would have for this is a stall where people would sell like emerchant stuff to sell stuff and this would have been like the Main Street thorough F where people go and pass through everyday living okay so now I'm in What's called the bcil okay this is the entrance there's also side entrance there if you look you can see it's very large and it would be looks like how a churches are and but this was before Christianity so there were no there weren't churches this was the courthouse and behind those columns they' have three judges they have the tribunal and this is where they come and do like the court and all uh hold Court after Christianity adopted they uh they would mimic this this this silica and when they' build their churches that's where they got the ideaas you'll notice you'll see here these columns they were would go it would have got very tall you see it kind of like that Second Story there and um you'll notice that these columns here they're actually brick underneath them and they covered in with this like white Plaster to to make it look nicer um but they were actually had bricks underneath them save some money but those ones right there those are real that's real marble that is uh yeah there's the stairs that they'd walk in all right so that is vvus that is the volcano that erupted and what happened when it erupted is that the city actually the lot I always heard that happened instantaneous what happened was is it erupted and the ash the lava start coming down and everybody ran away they ran away and then the lava stopped that's about 6 miles away everybody came back they're like oh we're fine but what happened was the ashes shot up into this into the atmosphere and they didn't realize what was going to happen is the ash ended up coming down between 50 and 70 M hour and landed on him and it was this burning hot ash and that's and that it killed everybody almost instantaneously it's like and it preserved everything this back here is the church this is the Forum this is a giant Forum building that is the uh basilius that we're just at here you see the marble um columns this here would have been their church and if you look right in the Center you kind of can see um a bust that would have been Jupiter here in Rome we would have said Jupiter in Greek they would have said Zeus and then uh this way over there where's Merchants that's where the the merchants were the Commerce and there's also Merchant over here then right behind me is that is the house that's where the they had the governors had four Governors and the governors would that's where people would go in to petition their causes to the governors right there in that building right over there every year the the inhabitants of Pompei would come and vote to get new Governors and this is marble this is all covered in Marble but it was looted that's all that's left now I was going to go down and check out the uh this the street here one of the main streets so incredible this this is the main street you see it and it leads right into the forum right there and at the end of the street just it looks just like a European city like street at the end of the street where they have they had they wouldn't allow vehicles or anything or anything to go into the forum so they put this they block this area here but then this is where people walk up and down the street so they would bring like their goods up here now you'll notice on this side of the street is a little bit higher this is the height of the Chariot so a chariot come here they pull all like there and then they could take the goods out of the Chariots and put them like on that road there and then they'd have like Porters or whatever and they take it into the forum that's why this site is higher it was an unloading it's like an unloading dock these are the now you could always tell a merchant has the Wide Doors and if it's a small narrow door like that that's a house now you can tell this is also you tell it's a shop you see here the this the stone had been carved out those were for like a sliding door a wooden sliding door cuz they wanted to m maximize their space they didn't want to have doors opening up in the shop so they had these grooves there for wooden doors this would have been a shop all right this is my favorite thing so far so this I'm in the main road here the main road now the Chariots will be pulled by animals donkeys uh horses whatever and the horses and animals they would they would just illuminate they poop right here in the Main Street and uh nobody they don't have like sanitation they would just leave it so you notice at the sidewalk be behind me see the sidewalk sidewalk was elevated up so the people would walk on the sidewalk now but what if you had to cross the street you don't want to cross the street on with all the poop in the road so they made these Special Steps and you see that they' step there Step there and there that would allow them to step across the street without having to step into the poop and the reason there's a gap in the middle that's where the tires would go for the cart now this would been a very wealthy home look at the floor is mosaic tile mosaic tile now they would have had a door here closing this off that was the Basin where they water but they he'd want people to know he'd want people to know that he was he was wealthy and had mosaic tile in his house so on outside his house just outside marking his territory this is his property line see a little Mosaic line that would let you know that hey I have Mosaic artwork D up for my floors inside look at that he did that wow now you'll notice that there's some stairs going up of course there's no second floor because all would have been burned but when if you were wealthy you had the second floor you would have had on the second if you were wealthy like I was saying on the second floor you would have either had your servants living up there or if you were a business minded person you might have rented it out to a person if you rented it out for people you would have the stairs come down to the main street because you don't want them walk you through your house if it was your servants the stairs are in the back of the house so this this guy or woman they would have rented this out because the stairs come right out here to the Market Street now they would have got their water from those mountains but eventually they made an aqueduct to let them have like running water this was to commemorate their the emperor when they built aqueduck the first emperor his name was Augustus and this is why this one was done in Marble the rest of them were done in stone the aquadec was completed about 4 I'm sorry about 70 years before the eruption so only had running water for about 70 years and then the eruption happened right now we're on a side street I'm going get into the shade a little bit darker here this a side street it runs uh east and west because it's East and West the streets would be in the shade a lot longer so there's not a lot of doors here because people like the streets that are running North and South because they get all the sunshine but this is a oneway street and the way that you could tell that it was a oneway street you see there's like a little Stone there little stones in the center that let people know this is a oneway street kind of little pop out like that now this would have been like a garden house was a recreational what a garden would looked like look at that this is where they go get shade and cool down all right so this is be inside of a house now their their gods were like Jupiter Apollo but those are public Gods you had the gods that you want to protect you you built a little teeny tiny Temple inside your house just like that you're and this would be where your God was that protect your house and the gods they believe they protect your house where your ancestors people have passed away and if you look behind it you'll see a drawing of their ancestors and you would bring them stuff and you'd worship your ancestors and they' protect your house that's where you put like little food once a week you put their food there for your ancestors or they called them private gods and we saw a lot of plaster casts of bodies the ash came down that covered the bodies and the bodies would make it like a cavern all right I'll get back to the bodies in a second I have to show you something here's another little Fountain this is Stone fountain filled with water water was free to all the residents in pompe anybody gather water and the rich people the very wealthy people they were able to get pipes and have water going straight to their house for running water but most people had to come collect water you can see like these are the streets down here and these are in the streets the main streets like this and these are all like little houses or shops and right behind me is one of two theaters you see how massively tall those columns are and this would have been the lobby you walk right in here this is where they come for entertainment and go right in here and for uh to for to be entertained to have shows and whatnot of course the most important thing was water always concerned about water you notice that they even had gutters here so that way you would rain the water would run down they could collect that water okay so back to the bodies the ash would fall down land on the bodies and they would die almost instantly then their body would be encased in Ash and caus was like a almost like a cocoon or sophus of their body their body eventually would Decay and leave but they left that imprint and when they were Excavating they would find these Hollow imprints and they started ploring P plaster apparis inside it and recreate their bodies in the last moments of their life the majority of them were face down with their hands above their face trying to cover them their mouth up and nose up so they could survive the ash that was coming down some of them got caught off so off guard that happened so fast that they were just in their everyday poses what they're doing at that moment when the ash came down this would have been a bakery that right there would been a Milling Stone they' have a will around it it would crush the grain to make it like a the flour and right back there that's where they would have cooked bread and it's almost identical to the way they still cook pizzas today but that's how they would have cooked bread this would have been a breaker see we're going to cross the street Stones oh yeah de about the carage wheel and you can see like the grooves in there right there right there and right there that's where the Chariots would have been going wearing those stones down these are all the different types of houses and streets that they had all right so I'm going to take you in one of the most preserved houses in all Pompei this one right here as it's almost perfectly preserved let's go and take a look at it w this is inside the house okay so this would have been the where they would have collected water so if you look up the roof you notice the roof is pitched it's it's coming all the wat comes in any rain would have been collected here it would have dropped down here and see that little tiny hole right there it would have drained down there into the cyan and then as they needed it they would take a bucket and lower it here to get their water now they had stairs you'll see stairs right over here that meant that since the stairs were inside that meant that they had servants who lived on the second floor this this painting the painting this man he was very wealthy cuz he had paintings and they also like see those little Mosaic on the floor this was a wood closet like a like a wardrobe well the wood the ash encased the wood the wood then of course burned away but it left that it left that um you know like Copus they poured plaster pairs inside it and recreated this is a wood wardrobe even down this the step the the feet here you can see the lines how the wood would have looked this is where they would have kept like clothing inside of it you can even see the little Mosaic work around the sistern now that here that was if there was too much water they could the water would then fill in there and that would just drain right out to the street so that way there's no flooding in the house if they ever had too much water they would just pour it right down there now right where you walk in you had a table there and that's where you display all your wealth like you had Jewels or silver gold you put it on that table so that way people could come in they could see how wealthy you were this is the dining room now they didn't have tables and chairs what they do it would be it was couches and they would lounge and the servants would then bring the person and feed them as they lounged on the couch that's what they do is just no no there's even some artwork on the wall so not tables you were L they lounged like and then servants would would uh would feed them now the poor families they didn't they weren't able to Lounge this would have been the garden of the house would there would been no roof it would have in a garden now what's interesting about this home is this this home had the smallest Garden of all the houses on the street and apparently what this guy tried to do you'll notice he painted there's painting there against the wall it made they painted it to look like a window looking at another garden and they over here they painted it to make it look like he was looking at the river's front and then looking outside giving the illusion that this room was much bigger than it really was you'll also notice along the bottom he painted like so it looked like that there was a bushes and trees growing year round in his garden and another thing that this uh homeowner did is he painted that they had fountains like marble fountains cuz those there's one right back there would have been very expensive to do but he painted them here uh giving an illusion that he had these fountains in his garden see like look like these little Windows see that look like a little ledge of a window looking out into a giant forest now this is a the door into the dining room you'll notice see it's actually very short the average people who lived here the height was about 5 four to 5T tall and so the doorways are very short like I can't walk into that now right outside the house you can see it say says cornelian on outside the house this guy's name was not Corel cornelian this guy was running for office so he rented that space outside this guy's house to paint his name to let people know hey I'm running for governor and it also is written there um um but uh so yeah people would pay them to advertise in their house so Pompei during the the height had about 15,000 people who lived here and the most and every day now Pompei has around 15,000 visitors per day so it's like the city that's come life again so now I'm going to show you what if you were hungry walking on the street you you wanted to go like a little restaurant they kind of had like a little fast food restaurants so you could stop byy and grab some food most of was done in vegetables like during the winter it was like vegetable soup and during the summer kind of more like a vegetable salad type thing so you com inside this here would been where they take the fire out put it there so they cook they could cook they soup and then when the food is ready they would put it right here and people come in you'll notice the counters are lower because they would have been they would have been uh much shorter at the time and this is where they would have come in and got their food and the and the um the proprietary would stand over here and somebody come in and they would order their food like I like a salad or I like vegetable soup now this is the same right we still do this today here right so this is a restaurant a little fast food restaurant let's could call that McDonald's and right you have right across the way you have Burger King another restaurant this so close competitor fighting for the same person to get food pompe was part of the Roman Empire but kind of not so Pompei was their own little city doing their own thing Rome came down and Pompei looked at Rome was like yeah we can't beat you guys so we'll just join you there was no war there's no conflict and they just ended up joining them and became part of the Roman Empire but Rome's kind of left let him alone let him do their own thing um and uh pompe was here it was right on the ocean and the ocean now is about 2 milesi away because after the volcano erupted it pushed the water out but they even have still they have little areas where boats can Mo right up to the um right up to the shore of pompe so this is the wall was painted but people do graffiti they come in they draw like little boats and like like a can little Bridge people just do little graffiti on the wall much like today in a bathroom stall now this is one of the two theaters they had here and look you see the seats and down here was the stage and this look how big and beautiful it was for entertainment now Pompei actually existed before Rome the Roman Empire and it was heavily influenced by Greece and so they uh right here they have the theater here they would have had Greek tragedies and Greek comedies here performed this Stadium could hold up about 4,000 people now in the time of Pompei you know how much it cost to come to a show it was free anybody could come to a show and be entertained and the idea was the reason I was free is that if people were happy and entertained it wouldn't lead into a revolt and they be they'd be uh they' be happy with what's going on not try to look for something better so they would actually give free performances they still actually use this they renovated theater a little bit and they still use in summertime for summer performances now you you'll notice that's lower this the marble here this is when really the wealthy people they would have come here and they would have again lounged they would have laid on little couches or blankets or or uh I don't know pillows and they would Lounge why other people who weren't as fluent was sit Lounge lay down sit and outside the theater you can still they have a plaque that still there of the architect and what was what's what's the architect's name it's Marcos octorious creis he was the architect of the theater this here is a stone and these were people who were donors just like we still do nowadays right show donors it says they're donors the people who donated money and then the the fourth line down say theater uh techim that means that this theater had a roof so you see those poles across the top up there it actually had a way to they' pull across these pulley or whatever and it would cover the roof so they all could sit in the shade can you believe that they can still they carved their names Z they being a donor uh for the theater how cool is that this was a smaller theater and I'm looking at it really from the backstage entrance and this would hold about a thousand people they would have done comedies and tragedies mostly here now this giant open area here this would have been the lobby for the theater so they would come in that door right the main door here they'd me about and talk if they go to the main theater would have been here and the Little Theater is right over there you can see the columns were holding the outside and the center was just like a open court to the but then had the roof all the way around now after Rome took over Pompei they wanted to introduce Gladiators you see these little tiny doors behind me this is where the Gladiators would have lived you'll notice see like notice they were much shorter and then they had this this open area where that was like the lobby to the theater they used that for training for the Gladiators and also for the show for the Gladiators there you see there those are those would have been the housing of the Gladiators and then this is where they trained them and also would have had some shows for the Gladiators Rome brought the Gladiators in okay so that is Mount vvus that's right there that's n Naples right over there and so the city was buried in Ash and it was lost at 79 ad it wasn't discovered until 1500 when uh if somebody was digging there they found it and and they kind of just people came in and started looting it but around the 1700s the king of uh napoi he was he liked Antiquities and he says let's excavate it and they start Excavating it and at first a lot of people were stealing all the they were stealing a lot of the gold and all that stuff but now they preserve it so it's one of the most perfectly preserved cities it was buried in Ash and people forgot about it for 1500 years I I know that was a very abrupt ending I was so overwhelmed by it by Pompei and how cool it was that's the ending but guys so this week I'm going showing you a bunch of things of Italy uh miles and I are going to be exploring tomorrow we're going to you see all these cool things in Rome we're going to do a vator which is one of my favorite things I've ever done in my life we'll show you that video we have lots of fun stuff coming up here this week is all be about Italy all right guys you guys are the best uh oh oh by the way uh if you want you can hit that like button and the Subscribe button that's a big to say thank you and then in just a few moments 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