Dougga: the Pompeii of Roman Africa

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Dougga, Tunisia is arguably the best-preserved Roman town anywhere in North Africa. This video presents a tour of the site's highlights.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:49 Theater
1:19 Square of the Wind Rose
1:54 Capitolium
3:03 Forum
3:52 Arch of Alexander Severus
4:13 Temple of Juno Caelestis
4:49 Licinian Baths
6:11 Cyclops Baths
6:56 House of the Trifolium
7:22 Numidian Tomb

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@bobfrog4836 Ай бұрын

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.

@Tubehauge Ай бұрын

haha thats amazing!

@darrenkeenan8307 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.

@PeculiarNotions Ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this incredible location.

@feiorn Ай бұрын

I visited Dougga last year. It is an absolutely stunning site that you can fully explore and beautiful countryside views.

@rickb3078 Ай бұрын

Super high quality content!

@b.a.erlebacher1139 Ай бұрын

Great video. I know very little about Roman Africa and its non-Roman cultures, and now I know more.

@SpicyCreamy Ай бұрын

this makes me so hungry for some travelling

@ogrejd Ай бұрын

Oooh, the communal sponge-on-a-sticks. Been a while since I heard someone mention those. :P

@Breakfast_of_Champions Ай бұрын

The experts are actually not so sure they were used the way it's being suggested here😉

@redbullhamster Ай бұрын

My guy. You're filling this Rick Steves shaped hole in my heart. Thanks for that.

@CaptCanuck4444 23 күн бұрын

Nice work, very interesting and well presented.

@barrymoore4470 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).

@bobfrog4836 Ай бұрын

It's quite the infrastructure for such a small population.

@rossl2344 Ай бұрын

Fantastic! So informative, good camera work. Thank you so much

@cherylwood5202 Ай бұрын

Thank you for this very educational video! Great site.

@qarljohnson4971 Ай бұрын

I found Tunisia to be dripping with ancient ruins. Just scuffing a flat spot in the ground might reveal a mosaic.

@woodpecker-ue2rq 25 күн 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.

@thijslammers4356 Ай бұрын

Wonderfull video, thanks

@Sam97979 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.

@evangelieabs Ай бұрын

Beautiful.thanks😊 for sharing

@wurldtravlr620 Ай бұрын

Was there several years ago. Amazing destination.

@acolyte1951 Ай бұрын

What a lovely environment.

@canelo1728 Ай бұрын

Libya also has some amazing Roman and ancient greek cities i wish to visit

@bobfrog4836 Ай бұрын

Someday....

@cerracarmine 8 күн бұрын

Keep ip the great work

@RaterProTrickster 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.

@Zatara47 Ай бұрын

Feel like Roman Africa is not talked about enough. It was super urbanized and the cavalry from the region was super famous.

@stevekindler 25 күн бұрын

Really good!

@ChannelWright Ай бұрын

A very evocative presentation! Thank you!

@josephtrahan8045 Ай бұрын

Absolutely amazing & cool!!!

@Jsmith2024 Ай бұрын

Wonderful. I really like your videos.

@notamoose231 Ай бұрын

So many interesting conversations must have taken place, with everyone facing each other, pooping.

@williamlloyd3769 Ай бұрын

What was the water source for the city? Any ruins associated with this infrastructure? Thanks for posting this fascinating video?

@alaingadbois2276 Ай бұрын

There’s an aqueduct coming into the city from the southwest. Arches over a small valley remain.

@morgan97475 Ай бұрын

Very cool. Thanks for this.

@12TribesUnite Ай бұрын

Wow ! Thanks 4 the great video!

@kimberlyperrotis8962 Ай бұрын

Wonderful, thanks🙂

@dianespears6057 Ай бұрын

Oh, hi. I knew that voice. Glad to see another video from you. Thank you.

@MikeGill87 Ай бұрын

It's on my list for the Autumn trip

@dziban303 Ай бұрын

wish I'd been able to go

@T_Mo271 Ай бұрын

Wow, fascinating.

@marcoterranova3679 Ай бұрын

Very nice .

@bridgetkeyes6170 Ай бұрын

Theatres and baths get the best outlooks often.

@obsidianjane4413 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.

@scenicroutestothepast 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

@Cre80s 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.

@LookingforRomans 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.

@1905juan Ай бұрын

Hey do you have any videos on Timgad? are you planning on visiting?

@scenicroutestothepast Ай бұрын

One is coming out tomorrow! Stay tuned...

@rickb3078 Ай бұрын

He just did

@1905juan Ай бұрын

wow! what a coincidence haha ❤️

@lesliea7394 Ай бұрын

Sure wish we could make time travel a reality so we could visit Dougga, as it was.

@mike4468 Ай бұрын

Do you ever have 'Ron Swanson in Home Depot' moments when guides approach you to offer a tour at these sites?

@Berter007 Ай бұрын

Thanks. Please make a similar video about Volubulis (Morocco).

@connor8873 14 күн бұрын

Do you plan on visiting Sufetula/Sbeitla Roman ruins too? They’re just as impressive as Dougga. It’s in Tunisia as well.

@fredyair1 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?

@scenicroutestothepast Ай бұрын

Tunisia is very safe, though renting a car is not for the faint of heart

@youonlylivetwice5555 Ай бұрын

👍👍❤

@kaloarepo288 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-Grandad Ай бұрын

Even post-WW2, parts of Hadrian's Wall were being destroyed by quarrying in the search for quality stone . . .

@shapesinaframe 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 😂

@munbruk Ай бұрын

Great. Did you go to El-Jem?

@scenicroutestothepast Ай бұрын

Yes - I'll be releasing that video in about a month

@munbruk Ай бұрын

@@scenicroutestothepast You will not be far from where I was born lol. Many roman sites in Tunisia.

@EllieMaes-Grandad Ай бұрын

In such a hot climate, how was the frigidarium made to be cold, or was that just relative to other rooms?

@EllieMaes-Grandad Ай бұрын

High up as it is, some reference to water supply would be useful.

@karimjerbi7084 Ай бұрын

I can provide pictures and locations of other lesser known roman cities in Tunisia if you are interested.

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@casek6930 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.

@gregorybowden1515 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

@ericschmuecker348 Ай бұрын

I've never seen such a fine 12-holer! Honest, that's a pretty nice toilet for Arkansas standards!

@BarrySuridge Ай бұрын

Ooo .. I'm first! 🤣👍

@v.britton4445 Ай бұрын

Time to restore ! Put in some permaculture, pipes and tech, call the tourists

@thislittlelightofmine8776 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

@Tubehauge 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"