Pompeii of the Middle East: Roman Jerash

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Few urban city layouts from the Roman world are as impressive as Jerash's. It deserves the name "Pompeii of the Middle East" as we'll see from a historic tour of the entire city. Oval forum, hippodrome, arches, colonnaded streets, fountains, theaters, temples, and more! Part of our "Cities of Roman Empire" series.
0:00 Introduction
0:32 Foundation, city history
1:39 City layout
3:22 Hippodrome and Arch of Hadrian
4:54 Southern gate, Oval Forum
5:46 Temple of Zeus, Theater
6:58 Macellum, South Decumanus
7:36 Nymphaeum
8:23 Monumental staircase, Temple of Artemis complex
9:34 Northern city: arch, odeon, northern gate
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@martinstensby2011 9 ай бұрын

Many thanks, Darius! Jerash is, since long time, on my wish list to visit This tempting video increases my longing for going there. We’ll se in the future, who knows…

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

You should!

@ORSOBIANCO11 9 ай бұрын

Thanks Darius. Jerash was a discovery for me. In the North Africa (Lybia) Leptis Magna, birth town to Settimio Severo, is another Pompeii, too.

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

Yes! But off limits for now!

@andyroo9381 2 ай бұрын

I had never heard of Jerash before. I never knew Jordan was so lucky to have this ruin within its' borders. What an incredible site. The columns are amazing.

@marquese1960 9 ай бұрын

Never knew this place even existed --thanks for the education.

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

More ancient world on the way!

@MelanieCravens 9 ай бұрын

Educational armchair travel is wonderful. Wish I could afford to travel in person but since I can't, this is the next best thing. Thank you.

@MMijdus 9 ай бұрын

Great! I always wanted to visit Jerash, but never could. Now I can see how it is. So much is still there. Beautiful. Thank you! 🙏

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@elaniecardenas1544 9 ай бұрын

Thank you Darius for creating these amazing videos that are both educational as well as scenic historical wonders.

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

Glad you like them! Do check out KZfaq.com/@dariusarya as well

@jasatx2024 9 ай бұрын

It was and still is a beautiful city. The Roman cities were impressive!

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

We agree!

@sianwilliams2271 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic tour, loved the goats! Thank you Darius and crew for sharing this.

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

@jamesellsworth9673 9 ай бұрын

I learned a lot about Jerash. Thank you for posting.

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@sanpedrosilver 9 ай бұрын

Wow! Such rich detail everywhere! Appreciate the upload. 👍🏼

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@shagwellington 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. I had heard of Jerash but didn't know it was so well preserved. On the bucket list.

@kimberlyperrotis8962 9 ай бұрын

It’s wonderful!

@marthaarya167 8 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

@user-uz2op6og3l 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful. I would like to go there!

@jensallis2 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@denizalgazi 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic! 👍

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@simonolsen9995 9 ай бұрын

Once upon a time in Australia, every second or third picture theatre was called the Odeon.

@larrywilliams5490 9 ай бұрын

Thank You! Totally Amazing.

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@RP-mm9ie 9 ай бұрын

Thanks

@senseis1 9 ай бұрын

WOW 🤩

@DonariaRegia 9 ай бұрын

I love this channel! Another channel that recently came to my attention is Carlo Pavia, Italian expert on subterranean Rome. With over four decades of research he is the resource into that hidden world. He has been on youtube almost a decade and only has about 600 subscribers, which seems almost criminal. One video is about a gate under the theater of Marcello he was invited to enter and explore in 1980 after fifty years untouched. It was fascinating!

@Breakfast_of_Champions 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip, he's got another subscriber now.

@DonariaRegia 9 ай бұрын

@@Breakfast_of_Champions That channel is pure gold. Subtitles and text translate are a must for me since I don't know Italian, but I do pick up some while watching.

@Vonklieve 9 ай бұрын

Looks amazing. It must have been abandoned after the Roman era. Due to the level of preservation of the classical features. I wonder if this was originally a Greek colony?

@spankflaps1365 9 ай бұрын

Hadrian used Greek sculptors/artisans, but they worked in the Roman style. Big and little differences.

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

Yes a Greek city as covered in the intro section

@markw4263 9 ай бұрын

Dang, those Romans were busy!

@KonradAdenauerJr 9 ай бұрын

Wonderful report. Did the Roman city have aqueducts, or water reservoirs?

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely- a few kM away is a reservoir that still functions as a swimming pool for locals

@KonradAdenauerJr 9 ай бұрын

@@AncientRomeLive Thank you. I figured they must have had a water source.

@jonescrusher1 9 ай бұрын

Great stuff as always, some of the camera work is a little dizzying though!

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@JLBRADY1 9 ай бұрын

Great work, as always. A few questions: 1) Why would a second century CE Roman city name temples after Greek dieties (Zeus and Artemis, instead of Jupiter and Diana). Or, for that matter, why not for the emperor as he had already supplanted Jupiter at the pinnacle of the worship pyramid many years prior? 2) Is the macellum a meat, or fish/spice market? Thanks in advance.

@Breakfast_of_Champions 9 ай бұрын

So these are the cities that were founded by the families who didn't want to become victims of the next Sulla. Is there anything known about the ownership structure? Did multiple families pool their resources?

@BenjaminIMeszaros 9 ай бұрын

Are Greek style columns that are stacked rather than hewn from a single stone common in areas outside Rome? Seems like a cost savings measure?

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

Two ways to make a column. Monoliths are more costly

@BenjaminIMeszaros 9 ай бұрын

@@AncientRomeLive For sure. I guess I'm wondering if Roman structures outside Rome were more commonly stacked vs monoliths? My understanding is that the Romans preferred monolithic columns generally.

@BoomVang 9 ай бұрын

Note this is physically close to similar Roman super-site Beit Shean in Israel. Am I the only one to get very jerky playback when video is panning? Have tried various settings, etc.

@Chris.Davies 3 ай бұрын

Yours are excellent videos. But they are quite literally only half as good as they could easily be! 30fps is a slideshow on modern PCs with 200Hz screens, and/or large screens, especially big 4K screens like mine. 60fps is required - "p60" - and provides (quite literally) twice the number of frames, and so doubles the quality of the resulting video. Please lower the resolution of your camera until it can capture 60fps. Even if that is "only" 1080p60. You've been lied to about 4K: it is meaningless and lower quality than video which has a proper 60fps frame rate. Thanks for your work.

@Suz-e-K 9 ай бұрын

If it was akin to Pompeii, how was it buried? Who did the excavations and reconstructions?

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

The term "Pompeii of the Middle East" was coined to describe the sheer amount of the the city - streets, sewer lines, fountains, temples, etc that are preserved. The site was abandoned in the early Middle Ages and covered with debris, largely forgotten... Excavations are ongoing but big clearing in early 20th century.

@SJam491 9 ай бұрын

Why did so much of Roman Jerash survive?

@alecbrown66 9 ай бұрын

Wow! The pompei of the middle east? It is that, and having to put Pompeii and Herculaneum to one side, for the obvious reason of sheer volume of preservation, Jerash, for me beats Romes Forum and Colloseum in its clarity of layout, structures,architecture and quality! I just hope it is or becomes a UNESCO world heritage site, and is able to be curated, explored and protected by top rank experts and archaeologists, and avoids being overrun by modern encroachment and robbed out by antiquity vandals. The king of Jordan should take charge of the site and using modern techniques and methods turn ancient Jerash into a modern tourist venue, using pompeii and herculaneum as templates, and turn it into a major educational and economic hub for modern Jerash. It is really time that the stunning Roman sites of North Africa and the Middle East are brought back into the limelight with its European cousins

@AncientRomeLive 9 ай бұрын

It IS one of the major archaeological sites in Jordan. New museum, ongoing excavations…