There's nothing not to like about a good Mary Beard video. They're educational and entertaining.

I've been to Pompeii it's like going back 2000 years and becoming Roman it's so well preserved

Mary Beard always tells it best 👍

Ancient Pompeii. This is so cool. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)

I was lucky enough to get to Pompeii I cried. It had been a dream of mine.

I absolutely love Mary Beard. It would be an amazing experience to have her as a professor in school. I would be tuned in to every word she spoke.

This is one of THEE best narrators I've ever seen. I visited Pompeii, and we did not get 1/16 the information she gave. And she was so interesting to listen to as well as watch. Great video. I rarely, if ever, comment, but I felt I needed to voice my positive opinion of her storytelling.

This was interesting. I have seen many different documentaries of Pompeii and also of Herculaneum. Everytime I learn something new.

man.. i wish i could have a time machine.... so so SOOOOOO much i would LIVE to go back and watch and witness.... this city in its hayday is one of those things... sigh

Ms Mary Beard's presentation style is so very engaging and informative. Thanks to the production team, specialists, and Timeline for posting this here. Very fascinating exposition!

It's on my bucket list and have Mary there too !!! Would be a plus

Joanna Fletcher too!!!!!! Another good host specially about Egypt and mummies

I always enjoy and stay interested in her videos. She is like an intelligent and curious relative that I never had. Thx Professor.

How they lived is what I always think about when I hear about Pompeii.

It is my dream to one day see this incredible place in person

I wish that I’d had Mary Beard by my side when I visited Pompeii! There’s so much to see, but often there’s little background information about the buildings and the people to put it all in context (except for the many brothels which need no explanation, especially in Pompeii!).

Thank you 😊 Thank you for All the hardwork that you.and your Team put into every episode

It's crazy how we can leave traces of ourselves for thousands of years.

Amazing expert for Roman life, Mary beard and for Egyptian Joann Fletcher. Best regards to you all out there for the new year.

Very well presented and documented 😊

Love hearing these docs while I’m doordashing !!

Such a beautiful video. Mary Beard is a star 🌟 🤩

She is a fantastic narrator!

I think it just as likely that the "poor" people in the cellar are just people that ran for their lives without grabbing jewelery and coins when the eruption started or were doing daily things that wouldn't call for them to be wearing jewlerey and what not.

Cheers, Mary! TYSM for your work and sharing your knowledge with us. Many blessings.

Love your Video. Been there twice. Thank you Miss Beard.

"Dammit! Even after two thousand years I'm still called poor!"

Excellent doc!!!

She got a beautiful voice and the story she tell us A+

I love this .

She is a bit of a prude. It's ok to acknowledge how Roman life was. She wants to project her "modern" sensibilities in people millenia ago.

Amazing had no idea so much was preserved..

I they should’ve called it Pompenis! 🤣🤣🤣

Excellent documentary thanks 👍

21:13. There is a way for having water circulation. Consider that, if the water was constantly getting in the pool by that spout, the pool would soon overflow; that would make for water circulation. Also, slaves with buckets could take water out from the pool, and, at some point of the late afternoon, night, or dawn, could empty the pool and scrub it. Without that, algae, slimes and other critters would have easily developed. And, if the water was never renovated and the pool never cleaned, can you imagine any person willingly getting into that septic tank? Romans would be famous for bathing in rivers instead of Roman baths.

Excellent! Watch the BBC special on Herculaneum with Hadrin Wallace..Life and Death in Ancient Herculaneum. it is excellent too!

The most entertaining video I've seen in a long time, it caught me off guard just perfectly 😆

This program is from 2010 but is still very interesting!

In reference to the indications of possible congenital syphilis, there is a superb documentary revealing the discovery of pre-Columbus cases of syphilis ..the earliest found in Ancient Greece. The documentary is called "THE SYPHILIS ENIGMA". Excellently done. (Background music, etc. CAN be a bit overpowering.)

UNBELIEVABLE.....I wish I could have a chat with her 😢😢😢

It must have felt like the end of the world for the people who died there.

Maybe the "poor" in the cellar were actually rich people who were hospitalized at the time of the eruption and took shelter there with the physicians because they were too sick to travel or flee effectively.

Who else wants to watch this, but feels like they saw this before?

It amazes me just how good their teeth was just think about that for a minute this was 2000 yrs ago As much as the romans were very civilised I just don’t think Colgate was available 😂😂😂 but joking aside some of them obviously lived very well and were fit and healthy

How can she not know that the phallus was a symbol of prosperity and well-wishing for prosperity? That's why it was everywhere.

As for the "labels" for where you stored your tunic- When they built one of the first shopping malls in Minnesota at Ridgedale they put animal figures up on big cubes on the parking lot light poles to help you remember where you parked your car. & "you are here" maps inside

Excelente documental.!!!!!

She is an excellent storyteller and dispenser of history as it presents to her. Seeing documentaries like this makes me wonder how many other towns they might eventually find that were destroyed in the same eruption. Pompeii, Herculaneum… how many others? It’ll be interesting to see!

FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE. WE SALUTE. I DIE A FREE MAN 🌋🌋🌋

The willy lamps were for good luck 😁

As you walk out the shops sell the phallic things..

What a fascinating documentary!!!😮💕

It has been speculated syspilus did not start off as an sad. But as an airborne disease

Are our modern cities really that different? All classes of people living crammed into an urban environment with high rise penthouses, tennement housing as well as the homeless who live on the streets & everyone inbetween just living day to day.

The buyers and the sellers met the same fate.

Wow I see my city I see Compton and Beverly hills

I would love to visit one day, and have Lady Mary Beard as my guide, shes the best ❤love her books.

Bravo....Mary is just simply remarkable

The name for a Roman brothel... Lupinari

I am thankful to have running water, modern medicine and sewage treatment. Modern society is so fortunate to have the means to keep ourselves clean and healthy.

omg i love herrr

Very informative

Love Joann Fletcher too!!!!!!!!

the phallus infatuation is interesting

This must be old because pre Colombian syphilis has been well established in Europe now… hence the congenitive syphilis skeletons they discuss here.

Armchair theory about the three statues: if the ashes of the woman were already interred there then it might’ve been taboo or upsetting to take a hammer to the monument. Just my blind guess because I would’ve removed the statue too.

How did the paint* last so long in that type of environment? Seems pretty strange to me

How many time have I watched this lol.

Very good . 👍👍👍👍

I think that those green beads might be Chrysoprase, a nickel mineral.

Love the antiquities uncovered by so much work by so many people. Wish I spoke Italian so I could watch Italian presentations. Beard is a British feminist with her interpretations and from Cambridge so "woke" to the hilt!

This lady is wild

Was all the items that this hub of activity totally destroyed leaving only the bones in the cellar? No burned grain in the jars, no residue of oil, garum, or wine? No bits of wheelbarrows, pottery, etc? It seems like things like that would tell a great deal about the lives.

Highly recommend an oft-overlooked- and excellent - documentary on Pompeii’s oft-overlooked sister town, Herculaneum, by Professor Andrew Wallace Hadrill.

this knowldgible wonderful woman, is a fantastic narrator and so knowledgable. men alway google up every last b it of credit for everything. so its refreshing to see this woman leading it. for a change!!

They weren't prostitutes. They were slaves the owner bought. When one died they threw her or him on the garbage piles outside a city and then bought a new slave.

did Mary Beard say corn?? I think she meant wheat

I have been reading marry bread book in German Greetings from Kurdistan ❤

They were NASTY that’s why the volcano exploded 😂

Were there any survivors?

Roman bathrooms and high school bathroom are the same.

A wonderful historical documentary about the ancient Pompeanion lifestyle was... may be Pompeii inhibitors they were upper classes families & their servants ( slaves, prostitutes & concubines) besides local merchants & visited merchants . Documentary coverage is not labeled to the Peasants & and sailors skeletons

Mary Beard - brilliant as always!

those hosts are adorable!!

If good bond me dat Time I much happy

All we wiill leave is plastic bags and phone ,

So interesting. Hwr accent is nice to listen to. So much sin going on there, no wonder God allowed the eruption to destroy many of the people there.

You could imagine cushions to recline on but not wooden steps that would have long ago deteriorated? Alright then.

A stone bed for adult acts????? I thought my knees looked beat up after kneeling on the carpeted floor. Can’t even begin to imagine a stone flooring.

Omg is Mary funny!😅

I bet Las Vegas and Brighton have never been mentioned in the same sentence before. Isn’t Brighton like a haven for pickle sniffers?

If people were “vaporized,” how did the gold and silver not melt?

7:54

Why do you guys repost the same docs over and over with different thumbnails? The documentaries are good, it's not necessary.

People who discover these place am sure there a lot of Gold and become rich these time

1:58 A roman coin just at her feets.🤑

I would marry Mary Beard, and we could talk about the Roman Empire every day

Herculaneum is even better preserved, but not as well excavated.

I'm surprised they had poke bowls.

The video is freezing and segments are not being shown. Fairly consistent throughout.