Dougga is one of my favorite sites. I love how you can follow the main road and the different passages winding around and in between the different buildings. I used my picture of the latrines as a background for Zoom meetings at work.
@Tubehauge3 ай бұрын
haha thats amazing!
@qarljohnson49713 ай бұрын
I found Tunisia to be dripping with ancient ruins. Just scuffing a flat spot in the ground might reveal a mosaic.
@woodpecker-ue2rq2 ай бұрын
Since the second half of the first century BC and as a result of increasing communities of Roman citizens living in the North African centers, Rome started to create colonies in North Africa. The main reason was to control the area with Roman citizens, who had been legionaries in many cases.
@barrymoore44703 ай бұрын
It's remarkable how even the smaller communities of the Roman world were still endowed with permanent theatres, entertainment and this particular brand of it being obviously of prime concern to the state. I wonder where the performers came from (local or touring), and what kind of fare they offered to the audiences (high literary classics or lowbrow ephemeral farces, or some mixture thereof).
@bobfrog48363 ай бұрын
It's quite the infrastructure for such a small population.
@canelo17283 ай бұрын
Libya also has some amazing Roman and ancient greek cities i wish to visit
@bobfrog48363 ай бұрын
Someday....
@PeculiarNotions3 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing this incredible location.
@feiorn3 ай бұрын
I visited Dougga last year. It is an absolutely stunning site that you can fully explore and beautiful countryside views.
@darrenkeenan83072 ай бұрын
Your journeys are wonderful! I have thoroughly enjoyed all your channels and applaud your desire to keep Hellinistic, Greco-Roman and Roman civilization alive. I only hope our younger generations will see the value in what you are doing.
@SpicyCreamy3 ай бұрын
this makes me so hungry for some travelling
@b.a.erlebacher11393 ай бұрын
Great video. I know very little about Roman Africa and its non-Roman cultures, and now I know more.
@rickb30783 ай бұрын
Super high quality content!
@redbullhamster3 ай бұрын
My guy. You're filling this Rick Steves shaped hole in my heart. Thanks for that.
@Sam979793 ай бұрын
I like how you can see the ruts in the road at 6:11, from thousands upon thousands of carts wheeled through that street.
@rossl23443 ай бұрын
Fantastic! So informative, good camera work. Thank you so much
@ogrejd3 ай бұрын
Oooh, the communal sponge-on-a-sticks. Been a while since I heard someone mention those. :P
@Breakfast_of_Champions3 ай бұрын
The experts are actually not so sure they were used the way it's being suggested here😉
@CaptCanuck44442 ай бұрын
Nice work, very interesting and well presented.
@cherylwood52023 ай бұрын
Thank you for this very educational video! Great site.
@thijslammers43563 ай бұрын
Wonderfull video, thanks
@evangelieabs3 ай бұрын
Beautiful.thanks😊 for sharing
@eclecticx28 күн бұрын
This video is a bit longer than typical. That's terrific. Don't be afraid to expound. Too much Roman history is never enough, IMO. :)
@Zatara473 ай бұрын
Feel like Roman Africa is not talked about enough. It was super urbanized and the cavalry from the region was super famous.
@wurldtravlr6203 ай бұрын
Was there several years ago. Amazing destination.
@acolyte19513 ай бұрын
What a lovely environment.
@RaterProTrickster2 ай бұрын
My favourite part of Dougga is the trip you take to get there. It really is in the middle of nowhere even for Tunisia and when you get there despite being so well preserved there is no limits on where you can walk really. It truly fits a town on the edge of the empire as well as giving you such a vivid feel as to how these people were living.
@josephtrahan80453 ай бұрын
Absolutely amazing & cool!!!
@Jsmith20243 ай бұрын
Wonderful. I really like your videos.
@notamoose2312 ай бұрын
So many interesting conversations must have taken place, with everyone facing each other, pooping.
@morgan974753 ай бұрын
Very cool. Thanks for this.
@12TribesUnite3 ай бұрын
Wow ! Thanks 4 the great video!
@MikeGill873 ай бұрын
It's on my list for the Autumn trip
@kimberlyperrotis89623 ай бұрын
Wonderful, thanks🙂
@ChannelWright3 ай бұрын
A very evocative presentation! Thank you!
@dianespears60573 ай бұрын
Oh, hi. I knew that voice. Glad to see another video from you. Thank you.
@williamlloyd37693 ай бұрын
What was the water source for the city? Any ruins associated with this infrastructure? Thanks for posting this fascinating video?
@alaingadbois22763 ай бұрын
There’s an aqueduct coming into the city from the southwest. Arches over a small valley remain.
@cerracarmineАй бұрын
Keep ip the great work
@stevekindler2 ай бұрын
Really good!
@dziban3033 ай бұрын
wish I'd been able to go
@T_Mo2713 ай бұрын
Wow, fascinating.
@bridgetkeyes61703 ай бұрын
Theatres and baths get the best outlooks often.
@Cre80s3 ай бұрын
Super interesting. It looks fantasticly preserved and doesn't appear to have a load of modern development encroaching on it from all angles, unlike pretty much all the rest of Roman cities.
@obsidianjane44133 ай бұрын
That area must be very tectonically stable for those columns or towers to have survived. Or are they "restored" by the Italian or French? I know that the mausoleum was restored after being demolished by an English asshat in the 19th century, but it was apparently intact previously.
@scenicroutestothepast3 ай бұрын
Although the site has not suffered extensively from earthquake damage, most of the columns had to be set back up by the French
@marcoterranova36793 ай бұрын
Very nice .
@LookingforRomans3 ай бұрын
Great video! I really like the way to cover the placement of the Capitolium. I am starting to become a doubter in the sponge stick for ancient TP. Seems more likely the keyhole, which sort of resembles our current public toilet seats, were more likely to help prevent urination on the seating surface. This is my only contribution to ancient archeology thus far.
@connor88732 ай бұрын
Do you plan on visiting Sufetula/Sbeitla Roman ruins too? They’re just as impressive as Dougga. It’s in Tunisia as well.
@kaloarepo2883 ай бұрын
I often wonder how any of these kind of places survive at all - the urge to use the building materials for new constructions in later epochs must have been immense. Our modern sensibility for the past did not apply in previous times.
@EllieMaes-Grandad2 ай бұрын
Even post-WW2, parts of Hadrian's Wall were being destroyed by quarrying in the search for quality stone . . .
@lesliea73943 ай бұрын
Sure wish we could make time travel a reality so we could visit Dougga, as it was.
@fredyair13 ай бұрын
Very comprehensive walk around a fantastic Roman city. North Africa has always been in our interests list to visit, how safe is Tunisia to travel all by yourself? Maybe rent a car?
@scenicroutestothepast3 ай бұрын
Tunisia is very safe, though renting a car is not for the faint of heart
@1905juan3 ай бұрын
Hey do you have any videos on Timgad? are you planning on visiting?
@scenicroutestothepast3 ай бұрын
One is coming out tomorrow! Stay tuned...
@rickb30783 ай бұрын
He just did
@1905juan3 ай бұрын
wow! what a coincidence haha ❤️
@Berter0073 ай бұрын
Thanks. Please make a similar video about Volubulis (Morocco).
@shapesinaframe3 ай бұрын
7:15 “…said to be a brothel, but there is no evidence for this” .. said as a pool in shape of phallus fills the frame 😂
@mike44683 ай бұрын
Do you ever have 'Ron Swanson in Home Depot' moments when guides approach you to offer a tour at these sites?
@youonlylivetwice55553 ай бұрын
👍👍❤
@EllieMaes-Grandad2 ай бұрын
High up as it is, some reference to water supply would be useful.
@EllieMaes-Grandad2 ай бұрын
In such a hot climate, how was the frigidarium made to be cold, or was that just relative to other rooms?
@munbruk3 ай бұрын
Great. Did you go to El-Jem?
@scenicroutestothepast3 ай бұрын
Yes - I'll be releasing that video in about a month
@munbruk3 ай бұрын
@@scenicroutestothepast You will not be far from where I was born lol. Many roman sites in Tunisia.
@karimjerbi70843 ай бұрын
I can provide pictures and locations of other lesser known roman cities in Tunisia if you are interested.
@v.britton44455 күн бұрын
Restore !!
@casek69303 ай бұрын
My guess is that the first "dry wipe" was the best and the rinse-dip would have been for successive wipes or a courtesy equivalent to flushing to toilet if you were leaving the sponge-stick behind. No doubt there were a few phantom poo-stickers in every town. The misanthrope or comedian, who could guess? Trying to deduce the culprit would have supplied great gossip material.
@gregorybowden15153 ай бұрын
Remember a healthy diet produces a firm stool so less likely they had runny situations in ancient times again due to their healthy diet also a well-known fact that cavities were rare
@ericschmuecker3483 ай бұрын
I've never seen such a fine 12-holer! Honest, that's a pretty nice toilet for Arkansas standards!
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@Tubehauge3 ай бұрын
Interesting how the byzantines did quite a bit of damage to ancient Rome, look at many cities and they demolished to build churches , forts etc. And lets not forget the gothic wars, that truly laid waste to Rome and Milan. Its almost a meme, "we are here to save Rome"
@BarrySuridge3 ай бұрын
Ooo .. I'm first! 🤣👍
@thislittlelightofmine87763 ай бұрын
I have to ask, were the sponges on a stick a one time use thing, or did some poor slave have to clean all the sponges at the end of the day, just saying, that's a shitty job
@kidmohair81513 ай бұрын
nothing pertinent to add. just feeding the algo-deities of the tube-y'all
@giorgosmassaros55723 ай бұрын
What can i say....evry where Greeks
@whome163611 күн бұрын
None of these, including the great Italian and Greek architectures, were built by the Romans. A lost global civilization had built them all over the world. They simply "founded" them and tried to copy, but their weak copies were all destroyed by earthquakes and war. You can find these "Roman" architectures in Asia and the Americas too, which most also destroyed by war, "city fires" or just demolished.