UK - I am 85 and have travelled the wide world, yet I always wanted to visit Pompeii , just never got around to it, I thought my travelling days were over, until Christmas 4 yrs ago, my daughter gave me an envelope which I thought was a Christmas card, It was a first class flight to visit Pompeii and accommodation overlooking the Bay of Naples, my son in law took me and everything was planned like a dream, it was an amazing experience, that is why I am watching the latest finds. Thank you.

I was in Pompeii 20 years ago, and none of this was excavated. Amazing that they are still digging up wonderful treasures after all this time

I visited Pompeii in 1965. I was young, fascinated, but lacked the maturity and education to comprehend what I was seeing. I’ve always longed to go back and see the extraordinary changes. The scenes in your video are vast, whereas in 1965 there was so little excavation, and discoveries compare to today. Thanks for the journey.

I took my mom when she was 75, with a wheelchair, it was her life time ambition! we made it, she loved it, we'd love to go again, she's now 81!!!

My late husband grew up in Naples. He visited Pomoey many times. We were going to go see it together, but he passed away before we could.. He said it was a truly amazing place.

In 2010 we decided to go to Europe...from Australia. We asked out teenage sons where they wanted to go..Pompei was one those places. We loved it.

In 1955 my parents took the four children to Pompeii. I was very young but my memory of walking down an excavated street, noting areas where untold hands wore down the stone and feeling prickles in the back of my neck because of Vesuvius looming in the background. I remember the casts in the museum of human bodies and feeling absolute horror at their twisted forms. My 6 year old imagination was actively reliving their experiences. I imagine how much better the city is after 65 more years of excavation and restoration. It must be extraordinary

Visited Pompeii in 2015 with my husband and young daughter who'd just completed her Higher School Certificate in Sydney. She was very jet lagged and tired, but it was a delight to watch her face light up as she stood in this ancient place. She had just completed an exam paper on ancient Pompeii so was very excited to see it in "the flesh". She almost knew as much as the tour guide, as well as some other snippets the tour guide had forgotten. Had the best holiday!😁🐨🦘

I was just to Pompei with Ef tours. We had 34 students, teachers and adults. It is most amazing. Worth seeing. They are still discovering new areas. Love this area.

Astounding, seems archeology is enjoying a new golden age.

I went to the fabulous Pompei some years ago. It was the most atmospheric, vibrant and mystical place I have ever been. Yet at the same time you could feel and see that it had been a real and lively community - a prosperous, happy and civilised place to live. Loved and laughed at the ancient speed bumps on the granite roads - still in place, to slow down the boy( chariot) racers going too fast! Nothing about human behaviour ever changes!! Would love to revisit but sadly ill health won’t allow- so glad I got to go there.

Did 2 weeks Italy in September 2010. Took the train out of Rome south and stopped at Herculaneum. Continued south to overnight in Sorrento. The next morning we took the train back north and stopped at Pompeii. Was truly one of the most magical 48 hours of my life.

I visited Pompeii several years ago, but also Herculanum and the nearby Villa Oplontis, owned by Emperor Neros second wife and with a long pool. And the last, I think are much more interesting, as they are much more well preserved, being covered by boiling mud from Vesuvius and showing the upper class housing compared with Pompeii.

It would be great to have a VR/AR version of Pompeii to see, while touring the town. Imagine being able to pop on goggles to view reconstructions of buildings and gardens as they would have appeared then, with people in their period outfits. In the distance, looking at Vesuvius, you could see it throw out boulders and ash.

I was in Pompeii in 1994 & 2005 completely enthralled, breathtakingly beautiful. There is no place like Italy -Viva Italia & baci !! My bucket list is to get back there again!

I always wanted to visit but never did.Now I am disabled and cant.I have always been fascinated and somewhat saddened by what happened.It would have been different now.Most would have escaped.I am delighted your continuing to uncover these beautiful buildings from the past and it’s the best information you have of what time was like in a place full of people from rich and poor .It is so valuable to history .It must be wonderful finding new homes with the paintings ,the gardens with the pools inside and out.Before we could only imagine what life was like for the Romans.You have a priceless treasure with Pompeii 🥰

I'm 71 and I traveled around the world also n when in Italy Pompeii was just about being dug up. The 2 best countries i loved is Italy n Greece. Loved walking on the ground of these great civilizations

A great up date. Ancient Roman historical sites are fantastic. I have been fortunate to have visited Pompeii twice, in 1993 and 2007, the equally fascinating Ostia Antica (far less visitors than Pompeii gets, so much quieter and only 30 minutes by train from Rome), also in 2007, Hadrian's Villa in 2017 and Roman sites in the UK (1987 and 1997), Morocco (2005) and Malta (2014).

The wife and I just got from a trip to Italy. My son lives in Naples and we went to Pompeii. Absolutely awesome. A place that has to be visited!

The first time I went abroad from Malta, must have been 1976, it was aboard a ship which took us to Sicily. We took a train, which eventually got onto a traghetto that sailed to the foot of Italy. The train disembarked from the traghetto (a specialised ship) and took us to Naples. Therefrom we hit Capri' and Pompeii. We were undergraduate students in our late teens with special passes to save us money when visiting sites and museums. My sensations have stayed curiously unchanged since that time in one respect at least. The more ruins I see, the more that comes to light through restoration, the deeper my sadness due to my ever increasing awareness of the monumental losses the ancient world has been subjected to through a whole range of disasters, both natural and man-made. In the case of Pompeii, Vesuvius, in that of the Coliseum, the Pope and so on. So, visiting these places is something I hardly do anymore. Anyway, I am 65 now and I have changed in certain ways though not others.. Before I used to feel so sad every time a plane touched down. Had it been up to me, I'd have stayed up in the sky forever. Nowadays I can't even bear to look at a plane. The waiting, the checking, the discomfiture, the press of people - can't imagine anything much worse except perhaps Poe's Red Death. However one place that I'd like to see with my own eyes ere their vision becomes black is that of Baalbek in Lebanon.

I've always been fascinated with Italy I've even done a brochure of Italy when I was in elementary seems like a beautiful place.

I visited Pompeii 5 times in 2004 - 2008. I recommend reading a few books on Pompeii beforehand. The experience will be much stronger then.

Was just there last month. I couldn't believe how big it is... seriously. If you want to see it all you need a solid 2 days to explore this area, I feel like we cut ourselves short by what we saw and realizing how much more there is to it. I can remember when teachers talked about it when I was a kid, I always for some reason thought it was a small area.... it's not.

I visited Pompeii 4 years ago. Fascinating, the historical preservation work is mind boggling. Beautiful frescos and mosaics. What I wasn't prepared for was the castings of some people who perished, agony on their faces. Gasping for breath it seemed.

A few years ago I was lucky enough to take a trip to Italy which included a stop in Pompeii where I had a great tour with an archeologist there. It was fantastic! The place is much bigger than I had imagined, and, of course, more is being discovered. Over 20,000 people lived there before the eruption.

We visited about 10 years ago and so much has been discovered since we were there! I want so badly to go back and see it all again! Hope to do it soon!

NO !! I just yelled out loud and scared the dog !! Those pictures of the dog etc were unbelievable !! Going back to vid, thanks so much. Pat. America

We loved Pompeii. The new discoveries are breath taking and just waiting for my husband and I to see them first hand. Thank you for the most interesting, educative video I have watched in a long time. Keep them coming

It is a show that REALLY DESERVES TO BE VISITED ... walking and looking around you, you will feel like you are identifying with the place ... crazy. Fantastic place... then if you use a little imagination trying to think of that time when many people walked to shop, to work, to live ... incredible sensation really.

I love that I just stumbled on your channel! My great-Aunt was an archaeologist and the stories she could tell!

It's amazing how well preserved some sites at Pompeii are

I went there in Sept. 1988 and it wasn't not very crowded with tourists. I do not remember seeing anybody doing restoration work. We got lost one day and I started freaking out and found myself running down a street. It was so strange because it felt like aI had tapped into the time of the great eruption and I felt the panic. I have beautiful pictures of the city at sunrise. It was a wonderful experience

I was astonished to hear the music at the end of this film. It is a version the Finnish "Säkkijärven polkka", which is very famous in Finland. In the war time the Finnish radio transmitted it continuously for several days in order to disturb the Russian transmissions they used to detonate radio-controlled mines.

At 6:12, how may ancient Pompeiians walked down those very same steps!? How cool is that!?

In the early 1960s I was stationed at the NATO HQ in Bagnoli (Naples) and visited Pompeii several times. Now, thanks to the net, I can see what has been excavated and restored since back in the day.

I visited back in 1978 while in the US Navy. It's amazing how much more has been excavated. It's a wondrous place to visit.

Pompei is a magical place to visit. I was fortunate to visit twice, and, it didn't cease to amaze me. I lot of the buildings looked new because they had recently been rebuilt in areas due to previous damage from earthquakes. A wonderful place to see.

What an amazing job! A true and felt tribute to life in Pompei. The music, the narration, the deep respect and genuine wonder and depth of the narration made this video such a pleasent and informative experience. Thank you, Darius!

..the one thing we said when we left, "..got to go back.." what an amazing place.. thankyou for sharing this 🙂

My partner and I went there a number of years ago, staying quite close to the site (walking distance), and we spent 3 days scouring that place, and its wonders. Following on from that, the archaeological museum in Naples. It really was a bucket list trip... we want to return

So incredible to see all of that and to see things as people saw them a couple thousand years ago. That was amazing thank you!!

What also amazes me is how colorful the ancient past really was.

I visitedPompeii in summer before Covid. It was a particularly hot, very hot summer. There was a heat wave. I can say I not just saw the site, but experience the feeling of being cooked alive. They have all petrified bodies behind iron bars. The frescos are precious, statues at the fertility house are very interesting. Frescos at the market showed actually the painting of goods with prices. The guide told us so many slaves bying for their masters were non italian speaking they needed to show it that way. Very amazing site.

My wife and son took me to the Pompeii exhibit at the Reagan Library a few years back as a Father's day gift. I learned a lot. I'd like to see the real thing someday. I love old architecture.

We were at Pompeii in July 2021. So many things were closed to public view. I sure hope that these new discoveries will be open to the public

We were just there last October 2021 and didn’t get to see all. It’s a huge area. Hope to go back again and visit.

What a beautiful landscape, I'm sure they loved life there!

This is so Amazing. The artwork..mosaic floors and its being restored. My brother went to Pompeii 40 years ago. Thank you for the video.

I was 15 years old, it was 1973 and I was travelling all over Europe on my own, from Finland in the north to Greece in the south and I also visited Pompeii, seeing this I believe there has been a bit of development. 😉 I would love to go back!

What a fantastic video! Stunning images and wonderful narration! Bravo papà😍

I visited Pompeii twenty years ago and I see how different is now , love this old city and I hope to go back there one more time .

I was there in the Navy in 1970. Would love to go back.

we were there in 2010. It was amazing. One needs to block time like 4 blocks of 4 hours each, good shoes, umbrella for the sun, cameras and a notebook for the notes and history, a guide ( maybe) and lots of breathing and touching of the amazing constructions of 200 years BC. After 4 hours, we felt saturated with the experience and needed a break. My daughter grabbed an entrance of a house and said : " Look momma, I am holding a house that is 2200 years old. I can't believe it." She was more excited than me! 13 years old 🙂I was mostly impressed with the baths. They had the cold bath pool and the hot bath pool, alternating from one to the other. In 2021, people start realizing the benefits of the so called " cold showers". They also have a restaurant that was so well preserved, it was unreal. The mosaics and colors were absolutely breathtaking. Bright colors that lasted 2200 years!!

I was in Pompeii 2010 and enjoyed every minute of it. The thing I remember the most were the "streets" of stone. You could still see the grooves in the stones that the chariot wheels made. Also the placement and visual impact the larger stones made at the point of what we would call today "a crosswalk". The stone streets are recessed and the large stones at the "crosswalks" are separated. I made the assumption that was so the chariot wheels could pass. I also assumed the recessed streets and separation of "crosswalk" stones was so water and sewage could run freely. You can see some of what I am describing in this video. The entire place was amazing.

Going to Rome this fall, Pompeii is on the list.

Been to Pompeii twice and Herculaneum once...but to be honest, you could keep coming back here and still never see everything of interest! Fascinating, unique experience. Don't forget to visit the archaeological museum in Naples though, where many of the most beautiful finds from Pompeii over the centuries are preserved!

Glad to hear that finally something is being done to protect the buildings. I especially hope that the fragile two-story structures still held together by the original wooden timbers of nearly 2,000 years ago will receive protection from the elements which otherwise will ultimately rot the wood. Thanks for the tour of the newly discovered tavern. I would have really enjoyed this video if it weren't for the incredibly annoying music.

My paternal grandmother’s maiden name was Secondo. She and her family lived just outside Naples in a village called Amo Rosa. To see the House of Secundi at Pompeii blew my mind! Could I have Pompeiian blood in me? I’ll never know but it’s cool thinking I might.

I read somewhere that the people of Pompeii liked fast food. Not like today's but there were stands were all kinds of food were being sold. I found that very interesting. God bless.

I was lucky enough to see Pompeii some decades ago. Absolutely amazing!

I have been to both Pompeii and Herculaneum and I think I prefer Herculaneum as the site was better preserved due to the material that covered it. Both sites are really well worth visiting. I suggest you visit in the morning as it gets really hot in the afternoon

Went to Pompeii in 2019 l loved it. I would love to go back some time.because I don’t see everything.

Pompeii is must go to for anyone visiting Italy, it’s like stepping back in time

Still amazed about this time capsule. And so much more to discover. The gift that keeps on giving!

Just with the images, it add reason for Pompeii to be on my bucket list!

Great video. Thx. I've been to a brothel once in my life, it was in Pompeii. :-) What a beautiful city. It was crazy to see massive slabs of marble used as doorsteps.

Because of a series of fortunate events I visited Pompeii one beautiful July day in 1998. It was all the stars aligning perfectly to get me there and the experience was spiritual and very emotional, still is this many years later.

I remember seeing in National Geogaphic Magazine years ago when they had uncovered the bodies. It's amazing so much has been discovered since then. Those mosaics, so detailed.

I was there on a tour in 1977 while in the military. While on the tour, we were walking along the cobblestone road and we stopped in front of what used to be businesses. The tour guide pointed to the road. There was a phallus there carved into the rock on the road. It was pointing to one of the businesses. He said evidently the apothecary who had the business next door to the whorehouse got tired of them knocking on his door and so he carved in the street the phallus so they wouldn't bother him anymore. True story.

Absolutely spectacular!

Wonderful information with a wonderful soundtrack. I felt like an opera was about to begin.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! TOTALLY AWSOME!!!! A MUST WATCH!!!!

We visited Europe from Australia in May 2019 and went to Pompeii and absolutely loved it. The chariot wheel tracks in the stone roads are incredible. Such a great place to visit.

As part of Operation Avalanche to liberate southern Italy in the autumn of 1943, Allied forces fought to dislodge German soldiers and disrupt their resupply routes. Important targeted roads, railways, bridges, and overpasses were located near the archaeological site of Pompeii, whose ruins were badly damaged by a series of bombings carried out by American and British fighters. Significant destruction occurred throughout the site, and some of Pompeii's most famous monuments, as well as its museum, were struck. After the war, many of the structures were rebuilt. Ironically, the recent, highly publicized collapse of some Pompeian buildings did not involve ancient structures but rather post-World War II reconstructions.

Thank you for these fastenating documentary on Pompeii. If more should develope please don't hesitate to share. Thank you for your toil.!

I visited with my 3 sisters in 2014 and it was just as amazing and breathtaking as I had imagined! Can’t wait to return someday.

I was there in 1983. There seems to be a lot more to see now.

Darius, your passion in Roman history you showed along these years is a clear example for us all (expecially italians). Thanks. (Cortesemente, se puoi, chiedi alle amministrazioni locali di migliorare un pò l'area intorno Pompei. Magari se glielo chiedi tu lo fanno).

PLEASE KEEP US UPDATED ON YOUR DISCOVERIES!!!! THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK, DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT !!!!!

I love Pompeii have been there 4 times in fact I spent my 70 birthday there & Herculaneum they’re both amazing places too visit 🥰

WAITING to go there again!

It is good too see that preservation work is being done here. Ten years ago when I was there nothing, or maybe one house, was protected. Most of the site was open to the elements even famous mosaic flooring.

I dropped in for a visit years ago, totally unprepare. Amazing. Recently I borrowed Great Courses Pompeii from local library, learned much much more from those dvds, fantastic!

I have always wanted to visit since a child, did it 5 years ago...and loved it. What I found particularly fascinating was the vibrancy of the colour of wall paintings. So so much to see, so another trip is a must.

Are there any illustrations or artwork of what Pompeii looked like before the eruption? Any plans of major building restorations?

Well narrated, filmed, and edited. Music zesty. Thank you Darius.

I just got back from Pompeii and just want viewers to know that you won’t be able to see Pompeii as this guide was able to. Access for him will not be the access you experience, but, it’s still amazing. Just know that you’ll be looking from a distance, if at all, to some of this. It’s nice they let him in so we could see it!! Mostly, you peer through plexiglass. It makes sense. They need to preserve what they can.

Maravilloso vídeo. Increíbles imágenes!!!... Estuve allí hace 20 años y ha avanzado tanto el proceso de restauración que quiero verlo de nuevo. Gracias a los que nos dan la oportunidad de conocer los nuevos trabajos a través de este vídeo, y principalmente gracias a todos los arqueólogos y personal que hacen un trabajo tan intenso y delicado.

Incredible, thank you for this video. What strikes me is the image of Roman cities I have in my mind from so many films is one of rather pure white, marble buildings and the reality is they were very richly decorated with frescos in a multitude of colours. Quite garish actually. I suppose it was a way to signal your wealth.

Your channel is awesome. I love Italy and have been here twice in the last two months - from Chicago and working remote. Been here a lot and there is so much to see. I love the Capitolinr and Borghese museums. If you had to pick two others - which ones would you choose (in Rome)? Now that you need reservations I would love your thoughts.

Outstanding presentation. This has been a dream destination for me all of my life.

Everytime I look at a good documentary about Pompeii, all I can think of is how monstrous, deafening it was when that volcano blew its top!! It must have been sheer terror, I wouldn't even wish I could go back and see it. I can't decide which was worse Mt. Vesuvius or Krakatoa😔😥

If you get a good tour guide ask about the plumbing. Really fascinating.

What I would like to know is if everything we see was burried under ash and has been all dug up and cleared..

beautiful! thanks for posting this.

What a debt of gratitude we all owe the conservationist around the world. Thank you

Have the archaeologists analysed yet the food remains found in the dolia in the counter of the thermopolium? (The music in the video is a nice touch, by the way)

I wonder how much of the damage was caused by the hot ash flow and how much was caused by tree roots growing through the structures. What would the wood used in roofs and doors and other things do when suddenly encapsulated by super hot ash?

My family is from Naples and this is such a wonderful experience to see! Someday I hope to visit Pompeii.

I visited myself being an Italian living in Florida, in Spring 2018( April 14) what a marvelous experience.