@MrSupernova111 I am Italian, after the situations of those years it was decided to proceed with extreme caution with the excavations. Current Rome is built on top of the old one. The Romans are afraid of digging a simple hole in their garden for fear of finding some archaeological find and in this case they would immediately rush to rebury everything so as not to incur the bureaucratic inconveniences that would follow. :D

I had no idea it was in Italy.

Not exactly. Excavations took place also in past centuries and began to be frequent around 1500 (Renaissance). That you have see are massive excavations for example freeing ancient monuments from other Middle Age constructions.

@@centurion5210 how

that's a bummer, They're afraid to lose their land tho vs some roman piece

Pretty good snyopsys

Thanks

Another ‘ they’ don’t want you to know that.

The Byzantine empire finally removed the invaders from the city, at great cost. The city of Rome was completely destroyed. There was no Vatican left after the destruction of Rome, of several invaders. People lived in hovels with weeds growing everywhere.

In the end Rome was defeated by Romans. They dismantled and destroyed their own civilization. It’s a reminder that glory and power without sustainability is literally self-defeating.

No new civilizations would have reason to or the ability to cover large cities in dirt and then build new ones. The scenes in the video, like all other similar scenes the world over, depict a world wide event that destroyed just about everything and left vast civilizations under 6 feet or more of mud. Nothing in our supposed historical chronicles can explain why everything was covered. Only the Bible, and only when you realize Jesus Christ has already returned and lived the 1000 reign with the Saints, as he said he would do. Once you study the mud-flood, you can no longer see the world thru the lens they hope everyone looks thru. Everything is a rich man's trick.

Meh, is to crowded. Visit Prague, never bombarded, never destroyed, you'll love it.

@@AITreeBranches Rome wasn’t bombed

Meh? Rome? Ooh how sophisticated we are lol !! 😂

​@@AITreeBranchesRome was not destroyed at all by war, luckly. You should study history more. Then...Prague is really beautiful, but you cannot compare it with Rome, which is a city with thousand of years of history, cub of western culture (togheter with Greece), and full of monuments known all over the world. Probably in Czech Republic you envy a lot all italian beauties. I can understand this.

@@CarolFremel-my4hs What's the joke here? That you're ignorant and uneducated?

I kinda agree !

Same

There will be information and I will add a new photo

@@worldtreasures5307 But much is now again under the earth as I remember. Nowadays they could create an underworld museum. Rome has as well problems at some places with sinkholes, maybe they should excavate and built an underworld museum and so stabilize the ground onto. There are enough unemployed. ;) Some is of course already open to go down and some is hidden for that purpose. But it is just a tiny part. Better than in some middle east cities, that took, reused, steal too much of the ancient buildings for building cheap residentials. Here it happened not so extreme.

Their is no such thing as Ancient greek !

​@supermavro6072 yeh there is,Spartans were Ancient Greeks

This is Sparta! @@supermavro6072

Helens u mean? @@Bobbythebuilder789

@@supermavro6072 Yes there is lol what are you on

Italy is a cool country. And childhood is what you need to do thoughtless things.

That’s exactly why it’s called foundations. Those original structures have been “found”.

Dust, debris, leaves, pollen, neglect. I goes fast!

Flooding mostly

@@HarmanRobotics Flooding? Absolutely not. Do you know nothing about the climate there?

Mudflood

@@robertlandin40 dumbest and least informed take

It's probably twice as populated today as it was in ancient times. But by 600ad Rome's population was 1/10th what it once was, less than 100,000 people. It was a shadow of itself. What were dug up and revealed to be amazing ruins were for long times pastures and cattle fields @@mcfahk

No there's an extensive history of Rome and greek Parthenon the coliseum etc throughout the middle ages during the Renaissance it started gaining immense popularity. We're actually destroying these incredible places that they had preserved much better. Look at the Sphinx the oldest on Earth it was pristine until just 300 years ago now it's unrecognizable.

@@mcfahk I know Rome is a large and populated city today lol. I'm just questioning how it got so buried while being occupied. No one over the years said these expensive and architectural wonders are kinda getting buried in inches to feet of dirt lets clear them out. Or even lets acquisition them for our purposes.

The Romans rebuilt the Sphinx. Notice the brick work added by the Romans. The Sphinx was covered in water and badly eroded.

​@@danmc2678It was covered in sand not water 😂

I once suggested to my mother and father that they visit Italy for a holiday, he said he'd already been there and didn't like it. He was captured at Anzio and marched into Rome for transport to a POW camp in Germany.

Well, your dad survived it, thank God! And, I'm sure he was a better man for having had the terrible experience.@@boblordylordyhowie

silly man fought the wrong side

2000 years of earth piling up - do you really believe in this???? Never heard of mud fluds ? Rome was not covered by natural evolution, but by an artificially caused cataclysm (as many many other cities in the world. Look for „fake basements“ in much younger cities all over the world. Most of our history is unfortunately fake. Rome was probably totally different to what they tell us.😊

It's funny how scientists date soil levels by millions of years. Rome, Jerusalem, both 30 feet underground after 2,000 years. They should be hundreds of millions of years old.

How did Ancient Rome ended up buried way down current street level, did the ground sink or was there a big mud flood which covered the entire ancient city or some unrecorded volcanic activity dumping ashes and dust over the city ?

@@timsmith2279 Right!! I went to Turkey and they have the same thing.

floods also bring soil in the water after each flood over the centuries it slowly raises the ground level and slowly buries the buildings, in the dark ages and middle ages no one bothered cleaning up the soil and mess after the floods so the soil just built up and slowly buried the buildings, also storms and wind blow in soil, which adds up over the centruries if no one is cleaning up and maintaining the place

@@timsmith2279huge buildings crumbled, earth was put above to make farm land. It’s not that whole Rome was 12 meters below but parts, for example forum romanum UP TO 12 meters deep but most of it around 5-6 meters which totally makes sense thinking about these insanely huge buildings standing there before. But there are more reasons like flooding and earth quakes.

The structures weren't "moved up", they were excavated. Which is to say, dug out. There wasn't all that much reconstruction. That's why the majority of structures are still in ruins. Most of the structures that survived intact, where those that became Christian churches. This is why the Pantheon, thankfully, is so well preserved. Mussolini did do some positive things for Italy. This was one of them. The best thing he did was outlawing Freemasonry in 1924. This is something every country in the world should do.

I figure it was just the latest buildings before the excavations. Probably 1900-century flats.

Not much. Earth was a boring place for most of its existence.

Integrated circuits.

Most of the oldest stuff was too fragile because most people used plant materials or earth. Stuff made out of stone would survive, but most everything else breaks down.

The sediment deposits are almost never the same in quantity due to all sorts of factors, you date these monuments based on materials used building techniques or maybe carbon dating.

Most of the burial in inhabited places like Rome is the result of human activity. Some of it is from people dumping trash. Most is from rubble, not only from the ancient structures, but from all the subsequent structures built on top of them. Gobekli Tepi was deliberately buried, for some (unknown) reason, which is the only reason it's underground. If you really want your mind blown, look in parts of the Middle East. They have these big, flat-topped hills called "Tells". They can be 30-40m tall and are artificial. They are composed entirely of the ruins of ancient cities, stacked one on top of the other, on top of another, etc. This is one of the reasons the 19th century archeological excavation of the famous city of Troy was so destructive. The site of Troy consists of the ruins of 9-10 different cities stacked on top of one another. The Troy of legend probably corresponds to the second or third one, and the 19th century archeologists were .... less than gentle with the later ruins in their zeal to uncover that particular one.

we have a critical thinking bingo. you sir are a winner!

So these people that think the world is billions of years old or whatever, they need to explain:Why are dinosaurs found? They should be hundreds of miles below the surface. And why isn’t this planet much bigger?

@@westaussie965 And why do we find soft tissue still clinging to those dinosaur fossils? And where are the billions of intelligent ape fossils that would have to exist if the Evolution scenario is correct? The Bible is true and the secular worldview is a satanic lie.

No, sadly a lot of this was demolished to "tidy up" the centre...

@@agillan2930 that's sad. I wonder how we would handle it today if we unburied such treasure. I guess we'll see

It’s not too late to volunteer. Lots of digs use short term volunteers who are on vacation.

It's rarely resembles the vision people have when they are outsiders. Even if you are just a volunteer (and don't participate in the endless work at the labs, libraries and faculty. Numbering the field work by at least 10:1) the main routine would be spent in doing various tasks of removing earth, brushing, cleaning and polishing the "benches" (soil and earth made "walls" left to separate the dig squares. They have different names in different countries). You may travel long way (and pay much) to excavate "a Roman Temple", ending up working 3 weeks digging into 13th century leftovers of medival horse stables, built into the Roman ruin....

​@@galshaine2018killjoy

don't be a grave digger

Can you imagine, all the trucks you see in these pictures filled to the brim with tons of dirt…. What that dirt had inside of it…

Mostly the River Tiber and its periodical floodings, before they built the walls to contain it

@@giovannil8244 ok. That's a possibility. Thanks!🙂

It was only pedestrians. There were no vehicles.

It's not a highway, it's a boulevard.

You can thank Mussolini for that hideous monstrosity.

It would be wonderful to see how Rome looked when Julius Caesar was around. The city should be rebuilt specially The Baths of Caracalla and Diocletian.

One day we will build like that again. Perhaps within our lifetime.

Probably the same as most italians think of the ruined castles and baroque palaces left to rot all over the country presently.... Irrelevant.

They used to do the station of the cross inside. People remembered the martyred of the Coliseum. It was free to go in .Today it just a tourist attraction.,you must pay to get inside.

​@personalelorenzo6922 try walking out on a plane with a piece of that " rot" and see what the Italian police will do to you .

Mudflood

Probably not on Wikipedia

No.

@davidhoward4715 Uh, Ok?

be careful, yt is listening, can't say anything against "science"

Yes, the new rome was build on top of the old rome

Erosion

Mud flood

mmm... it´s really weird that all those constructions were about 12 meters below the surface. Something great happened in 19th century and you can see the same in many countries of Europe and America, but official history say nothing about it.

@@adrianolmedo3816 surf up Mud flood lots of pictures Tarters War

Top of the buildings collapsed down, erosion brought soil on top of it, later generations built on new surface. Rome is in a pretty hilly area so there is a natural tendency to "fill holes" by eroded material

In general ist s horrible thought how much they probably missed

that's apparently classified

@@SilverBullet93GTNo it isn’t?

Because of flooding

In addition to soil carried away by the Tiber flooding (as mentioned by the previous reply) do not forget that Ancient Rome was built from an enormous amount on non recyclable or perishable materials: cement,plaster, bricks and even stones and marble burned into lime. Up until modern times people didn't have, generally, the technical capability (or will) to carry away debris, like done after the 2nd World War in bombed cities in Europe. They would remove stones, if they needed to flatten the surface , but otherwise often just used the existing ground level, after some reshaping work. In the near East this is how the "Tel" (mound) phenomena was created. But it is also the case in Rome even in places not affected by flooding.

Yes flooding , also fires , they just torn buildings down and built on top .

Because during centuries the land has moved above layers of dirt because new people built new buildings on top of the old ones... that's why the ancient cities are underground.

Erosion

That dictator Mussolini is believed to have vandalised, destroyed many important ancient Roman sites and remains to make way for his personal design on the city !

Just like those in the future will bemoan what we do today because we don't have their technology and knowledge. Should we just leave everything in the ground indefinitely?

@@obsidianjane4413 Not indefinitely, but the decision cannot be made lightly, and it certainly must not be made by politicians.

I think Egypt had it worse, treasure looters and vandals... There was at least some care in excavating Rome.

@@stiffrichard2816 Pretty much both in equal measure. Rome got picked over constantly for centuries by the armies that sacked it, down to its own inhabitants for the stone until there was pretty much only concrete and brick. The only stuff left was that which was buried by mother nature and forgotten.

Likely cleared and demolished.

probably they consulted old maps in order to find the spots where to excavate

Sediment from floods. Lots of 'em over the years.

No the Tiber river floods periodically.