It's truly awe inspiring that you can just walk down preserved steps and streets that people would have walked almost 2000 years ago

I can imagine how beautiful it must have been in full color with all the fabric and furniture. Thank you!

Had no knowledge of this place until now. What a wonderful introduction!

A smart sustainable home from the classic era.

What a treat to see gorgeous and well-preserved Roman archaeological remains without the crowds, you had the place to yourself and thanks to you so did your viewers. Not going to Tunisia anytime soon so thank you for your video, always excellent content

Even in ruins these houses are beautiful. They must have been spectacular when they were in use. Thank you for taking us along!

Those mosaic floors are so stunning I’m in shock that you are allowed to walk on many of them. I can’t even imagine how beautiful those homes were back in the day.

Welcome to Tunisia. I've been to Bulla Regia. Loved it! Did you see the "this way to the brothel" sign?

Since I will never be able to afford to see these in person, I so appreciate your sharing this video of these sites !!! Amazing and stunning floors and architecture!!! Thank you so much!!!😊

The ruin is beautiful. The mosaics make me want to cry the are incredibly detailed and delicate. Yet the walked these floors daily. I dreamed of a home with floors like these. Ah what a sight. Thanks for sharing your visit with us.

Thanks for sharing a glimpse into this amazing site. 🙂

Wow! What a cool place! (No pun intended!). Thanks for another great video! 👍😁😎

Love to see the red Poppy flowers bloom, just like in Rome right now.

What a fantastic discovery. Thanks for sharing!

This is an awe-inspiring look into the past, and we are in your debt. I find it truly inspirational that one can see up close and personal how these folks lived and the cleverness of their home design. Thank you!!

Thanks for sharing this with us! I might never visit that part of the world & would never have known about these awesome ruins!

Thank you!

The use of local building materials is strongly evident, as was typical for regions physically disconnected from the empire, unless a city was the birthplace of emperors. Then no expense was spared and no distance too great to import the very best. In their prime those cities would have been nothing less than astounding. We have nothing contemporary to compare with, an entire city built for one man.

What an amazing site! Thanks for sharing

I actually toured this in 2005, it was impressive to see how they lived in the heat....

You saved the best for last: House of Venus mosaic is captivating to say the least👍

Incredibile beautifully preserved stuff!

really beautiful region, thank you for the great video

mosaics have highest level of artistic and technical craftsmanship… just stunning

Lovely place!

This is fantastic - I had no idea these features existed. Once again you bring your unique insight into ancient lifestyles. I’m thinking though, they would have had the occasional deluge, just as we do today. Is there any sign of an ancient drainage system? At 3:14, we see what looks like a modern(?) drainage inlet. Speaking of low-tech cooling, Arabian wind cooling towers are brilliant, and need to be emulated.

Gracious living two millennia ago, a beautiful story told in, and by, stone . . .

So fascinating to actually see into the living spaces of the past. Wonderful mosaics!

Thanks!

Wow, that was quite remarkable. Those mosaics in the house of the fish are so beautiful. Let's hope excavation resumes soon.

I really enjoy these more obscure sites not swarming with tourist hordes. Just scratching the surface! Great about the potential as well for future discoveries there to be made as well - one can only wonder what amazing stuff there yet to be found....

Thank you for this. It’s great to

Roman houses like this truly bring the saying "They ain't making it like they used" to mind. Give it just a little touch up here and there and people could still LIVE in those rooms that are close to 2000 years old.

Thanks for the tour. An unusual and interesting site.

Honey, grab the shovel! I've got an idea for the house...

thks,we would otherwise never had heard about these magnificent houses .❤

What a find that must have been

This was one of the places I didn't go when I was in Tunisia a few years back. Hopefully you got to go to Dougga, Sbeitla and El Djem while you were there! I saw some of the most impressive mosaics in Tunis at the Bardo and Sousse.

THANK YOU

Interesting! Thank you.

Well presented. Thank you for posting...

I'd live there, it's a dream.

I was raised in an Italian section of the NE Bronx. In the 1950's it was common for my Italian neighbors to move to their cooler basements in Summer. They had small kitchens there for cooking, and dinning was done outdoors in their back yards. It was a sensible way to live.. May I add that the light wells in the wonderful villas shown here also served to suck hot air out when the sun went down.

They must have mass produced tile amazing the last building had Roman swastika’s tiled in the floor absolutely amazing great video !!!

Impressive.

This is wonderful! There's still still so much to see and learn about.

Underground home....extremely smart.

So this is where the channel is

How interesting those ruins, it would have great that un-escavated part would be cleared before it is too late handled by ruthless people destroying irreplaceable artifacts and history. Good job again 👏 👍 👌

Amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Wow. That's extraordinary.

Beautiful.

The quality and quantity of roman construction is amazing. I suspect it was heavily subsidized by the Roman government to get Italian colonists and bureaucrats to settle in these far flung primitive places and not get homesick.

Those mosaics are incredible

I visited it. Tunisia was a province part of the Roman Empire for several centuries.

Wow, this is absolutely amazing! I'm in awe

Incredible. It would be interesting to see what the town looked like when it was at its height.

Wonderful Please continue

Seems like people in desert areas of the USA could try and borrow from this idea of basement rooms with sunlight. Loved the mosaics in the Fish House. Thanks.🌿

So beautiful. Man I really want to visit these places. I hope I can afford to do so someday...

I think this is what people are going to have to start doing in parts of the world where it becomes too hot - building underground. Amazing to think of resurrecting an ancient solution to help live with the effects of climate change. Great video!

Gotta love those typical geometric decorations 😂

Fantastic, thanks for sharing!

Stunning!! thank you for sharing this :-)

Those building keep much better than building that got abandoned like 10 years ago

Thank you very much for your wonderful and amazing videos. It would be so awesome to go with you on one of your excursions to Rome!!

Pretty cool. Thanks.

Wow great video !

Great video

Oftentimes I find it hard to sense the mass and structure of these settlement ruins, due to most of them have collapsed and/or looted down to foundational rubbles, it is a sight to see such nicely preserved interior. Aside from some weatherings, it looked as though the owner of the property had just left mere weeks.

Wow!

This method of designing sunken rooms for relief from the heat of the day is also attested in Abbasid-era Iraq, and may extend even farther back into Mesopotamian history. It's an ingenious idea, and it was fascinating to see these Roman examples (perhaps unique in the archaeological record of that civilization).

The Mediterranean civilizations are amazing, from egypt to greece, carthage to rome or phonecia and turkey

Duuuude...you sound like the Lockpickinglawyer xD

Always think that it was 2 degrees warmer in the roman period. There was no desert and no higher water level in Europe, but no glaciers in the Alps and the agriculture did run very good,

Since it sometimes rains there - at least in winter - those lightwells must have had some kind of covering. And of course there is the ground floor. So the sun has to come down two stories, and there may have been some kind of roof (tarp) overhead, which means it would have been at least a little gloomier down there.

Interesting

Tunisia. You are really getting around.

Unreal

Wow

Wow, so elaborate. Wonder if they interconnect at all? Would be useful to elude desert raiders.

the subterranean levels were once above ground. Until the great mud flood buried the city under water and mud.

In the House of the Hunt, beginning around 2:20 one can see the columns of the peristyle which support an upper level, the span between the column capitals appearing to be flat arches, but ones that look improbably shallow for the weight they carry, which is a stone wall with unusual hexagonal openings. Is there more information on this unusual structural arrangement?

it feels weird to think that there were people who once worked and struggled to own these properties and lived with their families for decades. they laughed, cried, ate, fought only to be ruined with dust centuries later.

Around 1997 I visited the archaeological site of the Tombs of the Kings, Paphos, Cyprus. Hellenistic 3rd century BC, but used throughout the Hellenistic and Roman periods up to the fourth century, possibly even by early Christians. They were said to imitate the houses of the living, with the burial chambers opening onto a peristyle atrium. There were Doric columns as seen here, and on the whole looked very similar, though there was little decoration, nor nice mosaic floors. I just looked it up and apparently, they are much looted and quarried though.

Nice video. In almost all locations I see red wildflowers scattered through the landscape. Any idea what they are?

Did you notice that it was much cooler in the below ground rooms?

interesting where there doors or curtains between the rooms?

what is the covered hole in the triclenium at the bottom left at 3:28 ??

30fps. In 2024. Are you serious? This video would (quite literally!) be twice as good with the operation of a single switch: "1080p60". And it would be twice as good again, if it had that amazing feature we call "optical zoom". So, this video , while decent, is literally 1/4 as good as it should be. :(

I would feel like I was imposing....I would feel that at any instant...the owners will walk in on me and give me the evil eye.

And nowadays being called a basement dweller is derogatory.

you should make the videos much longer

Are you the told in stone guy?

Roma victor !

Low level merchants and aristocrats from a roman backwater province, lived better than the kings of the next 1000 years.

Why can’t we build structures that last forever anymore ? We are supposed to be more advanced but we only know how to build weak boxes of sizes

Who would have lived in these impressive buildings? If Roman aristocratic families, why were they here? Merchants, bankers, government officials? (I guess aristocrats would not have been merchants, actually...or??)

I will never buy any product advertised on you tube. They cause irritation.

This is Bulgarian, not Roman.