Roman Ruins in Strange Locations

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In this video, you will follow me on a short tour through ancient Italy as I visit 4 Roman ruins in unique places and with strange backstories. From a marble bust sticking out of the side of a church to a Roman wall hidden in a McDonald's...
I hope you enjoy!
And please check out ‪@toldinstone‬
Citations
Scampoli, E. (2010) Firenze, archeologia di una città, secoli I a.C.-XIII d.C. Firenze: Firenze University Press. [Web.] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, lccn.loc.gov/2011365526.
0:00 Introduction
1:07 La Berta, Florence
4:45 Plaza del Anfiteatro, Lucca
6:09 Durandal's Mark, Rome
7:43 McDonald's Servian Wall, Rome

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@fishy_fish1355 10 ай бұрын

This was so fun to watch evolve in real time on twitter, and even better when expertly crafted into a new Trey video

@TREYtheExplainer 10 ай бұрын

Aw thank you so much :) that really means a lot I hope to make more travel log videos like this. It's a lot of fun to talk about things I've actually seen with my own two eyes!

@belisarius6949 10 ай бұрын

@@TREYtheExplainerYour midrif awakened me

@alabastrowe7988 10 ай бұрын

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@ctenophoractenophora 10 ай бұрын

@therealmarcher 10 ай бұрын

You and I like Trey's Twitter for very different reasons

@Jobe-13 10 ай бұрын

I love real life historic easter eggs.

@Zenocius 10 ай бұрын

A lot of easter eggs in the British museum

@Abominatrix650 10 ай бұрын

@@Zenocius Easter Egg Hunt time?

@Sinsmoke_ 8 ай бұрын

Earth lore?!?!🤯

@cyberbully1678 10 ай бұрын

Considering La Berta is from the late Roman Empire, and the fact that the tower is made from cobbled stones, I would guess that she was looted from some other building and then just simply used as a cheap impromptu building stone. During the end of the classical period and in to the early medieval era, it wasn't uncommon for old roman structures to be cannibalized for construction.

@fredericksmith7942 10 ай бұрын

True, but I’m a bit more inclined to believe the Medusa on the city wall theory. A statue doesn’t make for a good building block, and I feels as though it would have been quarried into stone for a smaller project. I get the sense that it was already there in ancient times, and placed there very intentionally. Medieval Florentines would also probably have broken off it’s nose and ears.

@scaevolaludens679 10 ай бұрын

people up to the 1800s had no concept of preserving antiquity, so a lot of ancient sites were used as quick sources of building material. Ever wondered why the colosseum is so asymmetrical?

@remilenoir1271 10 ай бұрын

@@fredericksmith7942 Why would medieval florentines have broken off its ears and nose ?

@lainiwakura1776 10 ай бұрын

@@remilenoir1271 Could have been the affects of acid rain, considering how long that's been there.

@luismijangos7844 10 ай бұрын

Perhaps used like a joke from the builders!

@shinyagumon7015 10 ай бұрын

Your explanation for La Berta is a lot cooler than my first thought: My mind immediately went to the idea of them using old stones while constructing the tower including a broken bust.😅

@obad7633 10 ай бұрын

Noth are probably true tbh

@mirandagoldstine8548 10 ай бұрын

Mine as well.

@gube2358 10 ай бұрын

your idea is cool too!

@Eyeling 10 ай бұрын

My Mum was worried you had died when you posted that picture of yourself in that gutter thing. She loves your videos.

@TREYtheExplainer 10 ай бұрын

Omg haha I'm sorry to have scared her

@Eyeling 10 ай бұрын

@@TREYtheExplainer My Mum was stoked that you replied to this. She accepts the apology too. You and Whang! are her favourite youtubers.

@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep 10 ай бұрын

@@EyelingYour mom watches Whang???? Oh my god, she is so different from my mom

@PyroFTB 10 ай бұрын

@@Eyeling lmao my mom would not be able to handle the gross stuff Whang covers

@bewaremycurse 10 ай бұрын

@@PyroFTBI can barely handle it half the time idk how people get through some of those videos 🤮

@Yuric_INC. 10 ай бұрын

Little fun story, back when I lived in Italy, in the region of Liguria. There was a Hospital me and my family went. But the thing about the hospital is that it was built on top of a Roman mosaic. So the Hospital itself was on top of a platform and below it you could see the Mosaic. also across the road there was a Theatre (the semi-circular ones). but that's a very common problem with the Italian government trying to build new stuff

@Diamond-vp9je 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, building a new building is sure to be hard when one moment you could find ruins where you want to something. Making it even slower

@Kiwi-fl8te 10 ай бұрын

I can imagine Italian workers just trying to build a road and having it end up a zig zaggy mess trying to dodge all the ruins

@Diamond-vp9je 10 ай бұрын

@@Kiwi-fl8te yeah that problably happened

@calogerohuygens4430 9 ай бұрын

@@Kiwi-fl8te a lot of artifacts were destroyed by building enterprises in order to avoid any interference by italian archeological authority. When archaeological site are unearthed works are blocked for longtime.

@luigi1606 9 ай бұрын

Yes I fucking hate Roman ruins all the fucking time new infrastructure gets delayed because OH YOU MADE A 1 METER DEEP HOLE YOU FOUND THE PLACE WHERE EMPEROR TRAIANUS WIPED HIS ASS PORCO DIO

@nicolmiller5641 10 ай бұрын

You would probably enjoy Evora in Portugal. People lived in the region for 3000 years and it has everything from stone circles, Roman temples, Moorish tiles, medieval buildings and modern construction. Incredible city.

@concept5631 8 ай бұрын

Interesting

@dianabriggs1032 8 ай бұрын

I've been to Evora! It was lovely- we had one of our favorite vacations in the Alentejo region. We saw Medieval churches, Roman temples and neolithic stone circles in the same afternoon, almost like traveling throught time in just a few hours. The food and wine in that part of Portugal are some of the best I've had in my travels. Also Evora had a cool arts district. Highly recommend as a destination.

@concept5631 8 ай бұрын

@@dianabriggs1032 Nice

@dysphoria-chan 10 ай бұрын

This is something fascinating to me. What we consider ruins of an ancient civilization, an untouchable museum piece, it wasn't for people from 1000 years ago. They probably seemed like garbage to them, something to destroy and rebuild on top of. As you say, many people pass by there without taking it into account, unaware that those ruisn have been there for thousands of years. It's like we see abandoned buildings or shopping centers today, they're old places that no longer have meaning for us. Sometimes are demolished to build other malls, or remodel them by destroying the original structure. But if the buildings were preserved for another millennium, they would become an important source of information for people of the future. How many of our city landscapes will be the same in a few centuries? Something similar happens in Mexico City where there are still some remains of Tenochtitlan.

@nikitahichoii482 10 ай бұрын

I remember in some part of Mexico, theres a pyramid, I dont remember if it was a maya or mexica pyramid, but the point is that it has a house built on top, I remember the story was that a landowner destroyed the top of the pyramid and then used the stones to build the house so he could better watch his lands, I dont remember where the pyramid was but the story stuck with me

@nicholasproductions237 10 ай бұрын

@@eliegbert8121it’s actually very similar, most buildings today wouldn’t last but there are still structures constructed recently that definitely will, just like back in ancient times 90% of structures were wood, mud, clay ect and didn’t last to today, while a small amount of grander structures did, the same is likely to happen to our modern buildings

@dysphoria-chan 10 ай бұрын

@@nikitahichoii482Maybe you're refering to Cholula? At that time there was a huge pyramid (the largest in volume in the world), but the Spaniard built a cathedral on top. Today, you can visit the ruins at the foot of the pyramid (there is a museum there, and you can even climb part of the structure), while local people walks to the top to go to the church.

@Mvtarvs 10 ай бұрын

@@dysphoria-channo, esa no es, la verdad si existe una pirámide con una casa encima, lo de construir catedrales encima de las pirámides mexicas era normal pero no construir casas JAJAJA

@hedgehog3180 9 ай бұрын

@@nicholasproductions237 Also modern buildings will leave foundations that'll stay around for much longer than the building itself and foundations made in earlier times. It is unlikely that any skyscraper will stand for a millennium but their foundations are likely to stick around for thousands of years because they're built so deep into the earth. Anyone who found said foundations in the future would be able to extrapolate a lot about the building itself based on the foundation.

@pannkale9259 10 ай бұрын

It's so nice that people from outside of Europe (especially southern Europe) seem to be really excited about this kind of things, because we southern Europeans tend to dismiss these peculiarities since they are part of our everyday life, and seeing your video makes me realize how cool they actually are :)

@pekvanc5354 10 ай бұрын

I love small interesting places like this. I live in Hungary, and study archeology. On a trip to Budapest's Castle our professor stoped us at every single archeological age brick and told a mindblowing story about it. It's also kinda morbid, on an other trip we went into someone's backyard and there was a a bunch of roman graves with skeletons behind glass. Love your videos, you partially inspired me to study archeology.

@Pollicina_db 10 ай бұрын

Omg I study art history in Croatia and when we went to see the ancient ruins of the city of Salona we also went through someones backyard😂

@InvadeleYogurt 10 ай бұрын

It's crazy that the many invading tribes saw those walls, perhaps Hannibal himself knew of the walls despite just barely seeing the city from afar.

@spaghettimkay5795 10 ай бұрын

Now some guy looks at those same walls with a big mac and a large diet coke

@hedgehog3180 9 ай бұрын

Hannibal wouldn't have seen those walls as they were built much later.

@grimus8266 10 ай бұрын

I’d imagine a lot of these rulers would feel humbled to know just how far their kingdom and then empire went even after they died and how much of it is still around and recorded even after it fell

@shenanigans2877 7 ай бұрын

If there's anything a Roman emperor would not be its humble

@OrbitalLizardStudios 10 ай бұрын

I'm gonna do some archeology on this video itself! At the time of around 6:09, a strange artifact is visible climbing up the far right of the screen. This is the remnant of a more ancient draft of the video, still peeking through the cracks of this present day version.

@qwertydavid8070 9 ай бұрын

wait what how did you notice that

@Shatterverse 10 ай бұрын

That repurposed hunk of wall theory makes sense. Here in Chicago, after The Great Chicago Fire, materials and even parts of brick walls were reused and integrated into replacements. You can even see a few such places where the bricks radically change in an uneven line on a wall, or very old bricks made into sidewalks. And after the fall of Rome there was all this old ruined stonework just laying around doing nothing, so they would have every reason to just use that.

@Stoneworks 10 ай бұрын

Awww ye. An upload from TREY makes a great day.

@monbec_sigrym 10 ай бұрын

"This lump has quite the story" - Only a handful of channels can deliver such a statement with such authenticity.

@jam-etc 10 ай бұрын

ahhh this is so nice and chill. I love la Berta, she's beautiful. we have actually cracked the code for roman concrete, I do hope that it can be used again for its amazing self-repairing powers when rained on- mineral deposits dissolve in the rain, fill the cracks as a liquid, then becomes solid rock again as the water evapourates, perfectly repairing any crack the water can get into. brilliant tbh

@mirandagoldstine8548 9 ай бұрын

Really? That’s wonderful!

@rubix7449 10 ай бұрын

Hey! I'm from Lucca, really happy to see you visited! Also the walls surrounding the city are in part built upon the roman ones, it can be seen in some places

@GreedGibbon 10 ай бұрын

The Man, The Myth, The guy who created my childhood has uploaded!

@zergling2621 10 ай бұрын

Hey Trey, nice to see you again on KZfaq! 🎉 This was actually very entertaining to watch. I think most of us will look forward to more history vlogs from you!

@poughkeepsieblue 10 ай бұрын

This was the best thing ive watched all week. Ancient history is fascinating, and im glad you took me along to show me what youve found. Good show as always. Be safe brother.

@HistoryofAztlan 10 ай бұрын

Wait till bro finds out about all the ruins beneath Mexico City and the whole valley of Mexico area 😄 So much spolia used in some of the buildings like La Berta, some of the most interesting are the ones with Aztec glyphs denoting dates.

@TREYtheExplainer 10 ай бұрын

I've wanted to visit Mexico City for a longgg time I'll visit some day

@diegoestrada56 10 ай бұрын

In Guatemala there is a whole area of the city just FULL of mayan ruins. Where my grandma lives there is multiple stone structures around and there is a park built around some, take in mind that it's a full on city and not a village, there is modern buildings and streets everywhere around the ruins. My grandma also has a massive stone chunk that clearly has mayan markings in her garage, she says she found it in the terrain of her house when she started building it.

@PhoenixMoth 7 ай бұрын

Me too

@Bmx2live2008 10 ай бұрын

4 Trey videos in a year. Good lord.

@TREYtheExplainer 10 ай бұрын

I think I can make it 5...

@Bmx2live2008 10 ай бұрын

@@TREYtheExplainer we are truly through the looking glass now

@beanoptodon 10 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed your adventure in Greece! I'm very glad to see you're back as well :D

@christinepefley5312 10 ай бұрын

Welcome back! I cant wait to see all about your adventures in Greece. Thanks for the video!

@mskleftwich 10 ай бұрын

This was awesome! Thanks, Trey. Can’t wait to hear more about your travels.

@blakedurrant9399 10 ай бұрын

Love Garrets videos and all things Roman, thanks for the upload! Ancient Rome Live is another great channel for all things ancient Rome

@Guruc13 10 ай бұрын

Between the funny and slick editing, cool architecture, amazing stories, And the over the garden wall ending? This may be my new favorite video made by you. Thank you ❤🎉

@hopefulbloom 10 ай бұрын

Trey really reignites my love for history with each upload

@stevekovoc3939 9 ай бұрын

I love the way that medieval people in a way preserved Roman history while still adapting it to modern use by keeping the same shape and even building blocks of the old coliseum.

@juliusnepos6013 10 ай бұрын

Great to see you back!

@robertaperoglio 10 ай бұрын

A couple other places: there are some places in the parking lot under via Roma in Turin where you can see roman walls ruins. The second is better known: Siracusa's cathedral was once a greek and roman temple and it is very evident from the columns inside of it. PS: if you need help with the translation you have but to ask! 😊 Great video as always!

@antlerbraum2881 10 ай бұрын

This video is a testament to all the cool historical stories that exist right under our noses.

@fuffboi7570 10 ай бұрын

This is so cool! I've seen many videos of the Italian and greek streets where ruins are littered about and countless news articles discussing construction companies' wishes to completely destroy ruins because they're in the way of construction after discovery, but it makes me happy seeing all the buildings that incorporate the ruins into their construction. Like living history, only made to fit contemporary use!

@Boretheory 9 ай бұрын

The issue is in Rome constructing anything is absolutely impossible and it’s seriously harming the city’s growth and maintainability

@owellafehr5191 10 ай бұрын

The McDonald's wall reminds me of a place I visited in Tallinn, Estonia, where there was a modern McDonald's inside a possibly 18th/19th century building, across from a medieval fortification. Also, part of a crumbling Roman wall next to a very modern shopping mall in Exeter, England. Really neat!

@amandasackman7723 10 ай бұрын

OMG I'm so happy to see a new video of yours!

@metaclownfish5921 10 ай бұрын

Man, your videos always improve my day. Thank you!

@shriggs55 10 ай бұрын

Thanks! Interesting.Things hidden in plain sight are fascinating fun to see and know about. Good to hear from you again.

@redactedz6146 10 ай бұрын

This is the sort of historical content that I've been pondering and have been intrigued with for a while now. The many mundane things that have stood with longevity are amazing glimpses of what once was. From things like layouts of streets and blocks, to that stone arc we have at our current campus, which used to be the entryway/gate/door of the school's old campus in a different location

@elliottedwards2094 10 ай бұрын

Fantastic to have you back TREY! Such an interesting video, never throught a random head in a wall and a monument in mcdonalds could be so engaging

@kesorangutan6170 10 ай бұрын

Yooo I love Told in Stone! Thank you for shedding some light to that channel Trey!

@Kyranox 10 ай бұрын

Welcome back Trey! Can’t wait to see what you have for us. Great video as always.

@maebae5350 10 ай бұрын

Great timing! I was just thinking about you the other day and wondering where you disappeared to. Plus I've been watching Told In Stone due to Tarnished Archeologist shouting him out in a video a while ago, and I was just watching his lesser known Roman ruins videos the other day. Glad you're back!

@robertneilson2780 10 ай бұрын

Yes!! I’m glad you enjoyed the time you were gone. I love your content!

@Neronova888 10 ай бұрын

I was literally about to finish a marathon of all your videos and then I see this one, perfect timing

@angelakozell5939 10 ай бұрын

I am so happy you are back! Easily one of my top 3 channels 😊

@picklerick8785 10 ай бұрын

I missed La Berta when I visited Florence years ago. What I thought was super cool was going underneath the cathedral to the medieval and earlier layers of archaeology, to the Roman layers.

@samuelbedsole5089 10 ай бұрын

I've been following your travels on Twitter and what you've shared really goes to show how much the modern world is built on the foundations of the old. It also goes to show the engineering prowess of ancient Rome, that nearly 2000 years after their original architects and masons have died their work lives on in one form or another, and will probably outlast us in the modern age.

@josephhernandez5922 10 ай бұрын

It’s always a good day when Trey posts a video, thank you for your hard work brother.

@thtyeyo 10 ай бұрын

Loved seeing all your travel pics/experiences on twitter, so happy to watch another video too!

@fluffyyote 10 ай бұрын

I like that i can tell that you’re happy with the way you talk :) good to have you back!

@catboymccartney 10 ай бұрын

this was great as always :-] i always love having your videos on when i'm drawing!!

@SpeedRc3r 10 ай бұрын

Good to see you're back!

@armandotrujillo856 10 ай бұрын

6:18 Imagine going to this alley in the middle of the night, touch the boulder, and then look up to see Trey's silhouette ready to attack

@shinglemcdingle4093 10 ай бұрын

My school, a classical gymnasyum in Zadar, Croatia, has the remains of a roman sewage in its' basement. It is also located just north west of where the ancient roman forum used to be. Love my city so much

@sambarrett871 10 ай бұрын

Glad to have ya back!!

@LOTLore 10 ай бұрын

Love that you shouted out toldinstone, he is one of my favorite KZfaqrs along with you, keep up the amazing work Trey ❤

@DariusLeac 10 ай бұрын

In vacation in greece right now and was watching your videos on repeat. Blessed with this gem now :)

@alucardhellsing5466 10 ай бұрын

Always a pleasure when Trey uploads

@salmonchutoy3009 10 ай бұрын

welcome back trey, always love learning about roman architecture

@tarazzzs 10 ай бұрын

So good to see new video from you, dude.

@alexrexaros9837 10 ай бұрын

I live near another village in northern France (Normandy, Basse). In this part of the country, we assumed the romans never really built anything significant there. However, three decades ago, they discovered a whole city right under a village. It started with a merchant's house, some therms, a few pillars here and there. But my favourite one is that time when some rich couple who worked in the bank industry were building their house, a lifelong project I was told, because they found remains of a roman vase while digging there. Turns out they've found the house of an acient bloke and they had to stop everything for YEARS just to unearth the damn thing.

@mirandagoldstine8548 9 ай бұрын

That’s hilarious. I mean it probably wasn’t fun for the couple but hilarious in that it proved scholars wrong.

@AchyParts 21 күн бұрын

Should've just moved into the old house then

@dallasbarrigar 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for this great video, Trey. You always find interesting topics to talk about and you do it in such an entertaining way. Can’t wait to see more from this trip you were on. And let’s hope you get to 1 million very soon!

@tristenmay3369 10 ай бұрын

So glad your back!

@m4rc1an08 10 ай бұрын

Dude, you are about to hit a MILLION subs! I have watched your videos for like six years now, thank you for what you have done to little lives like mine across the corners of the world

@igorzaprzaek3547 10 ай бұрын

love your videos man, keep doing amazing work ❤

@ThatGurlSabrina 10 ай бұрын

I do love me some TREY the Explainer! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!

@TREYtheExplainer 10 ай бұрын

Aww, thank you so much for watching my content :) I really love making it for you all

@Erufailon42 10 ай бұрын

I've been subscribed to you for probably a decade now. Congrats on 1M subscribers 🎉

@DDSForbbiden 10 ай бұрын

It is so good to have you back, Trey!

@budnrobots2968 10 ай бұрын

Glad you’re back!!! Don’t let us pressure you too much, love is true !!

@QUIRK1019 10 ай бұрын

Hey I love Told In Stone!! So grateful you gave them a shout-out

@darkmatterburger 10 ай бұрын

Today is a good day! 3 of my favorite channels randomly posted!

@SkoomaCat 10 ай бұрын

I missed youuuuu. I loved how there's literally roman ruins everywhere in Europe ❤❤❤❤ told in stone!!!!

@nasrac23852 10 ай бұрын

Always a good day when Trey uploads

@WabbyDoo 10 ай бұрын

Congratulations on your travels! And as always, thank you for the video :)

@BOIZADAS 10 ай бұрын

I love doing this, despite the fact that I also live in a country full of archeological sites in the middle of more modern things (I should be accustomed to it, like my fellows countryman, but I insist on it). Come to Portugal one day, and please keep with this type of videos.

@einienj3281 10 ай бұрын

It's been awhile! Good to have you back! ❤

@therainbowwillow4453 10 ай бұрын

I needed a short post-rehearsal watch to get me ready to sleep and stumbled upon this gem! What a lovely video! Well done!

@bluepotatoes223 10 ай бұрын

Awesome, just got back from my trip to Italy, and since then my fascination with the Romans has grown.

@SophiaBlegacyoffun 10 ай бұрын

I love toldinstone! Glad you took inspiration from him for this video I love this kind of content. 10/10

@Treva 10 ай бұрын

looks like a great vacation, toldinstone is one of my favorite roman/antiquity youtubers.

@compatriot852 10 ай бұрын

It would be interesting to do a follow-up video on Roman frontier ruins given they were strange since their inception fusing the local culture with that of Rome, having their own currency, etc. Crimea and the Amber road to modern day Lithuania is a good example of this as roman currency and goods are still being found as north as Estonia to this very day

@Elora445 10 ай бұрын

If so many of that those things are found in Estonia, it's no wonder some of those found their way up to us in the Nordics.

@wakey_wakey_ 10 ай бұрын

the over the garden wall outro is the cherry on top for this video, cheers trey

@nathansimpson5721 10 ай бұрын

More of these! I loved this video

@himwo. 10 ай бұрын

Glad to have you back, Trey

@Millianna777 10 ай бұрын

The squeal that came out of me at the outro song was inhuman. Great video!

@drewbertdoo 10 ай бұрын

Super cool! Can’t wait to hear about your dig!

@swat6591 10 ай бұрын

Love your stuff, even the shorter videos. Hope to see a recap of the Greece trip aswell. Almost 1million!

@zekegonzalez3881 9 ай бұрын

Love your videos Trey❤ keep at it:)

@youwatchers 10 ай бұрын

Trey is back! Love the videos dude ❤

@Fr.O.G. 10 ай бұрын

I'm a long time watcher, but I just subscribed yesterday, and bang, new video!

@TREYtheExplainer 10 ай бұрын

like magic ;)

@DiabeticIguana 10 ай бұрын

Great vid. And 999k sooo close!!! You deserve it too. Can’t wait to see you and your channel grow more!

@xkumanekox 10 ай бұрын

A little off topic here, Trey, but I noticed on your Twitter recently that you were also a kaiju fan. It was super cool to learn that my favorite history youtuber is also in kaiju and Japanese tokusatsu stuff. Much love.