Oh Lord Almighty, that is some beautiful work by the ancestors. Pride in craftsmanship.

As a woodworker myself seeing all those treasures is serious treat. Those intricate tesselations are gorgeous and I will definitely be watching this video again many times for inspiration. Thank you so much Darius for making this material available! 🤯❤

While I enjoy seeing what an ancient city was, what blows me away is the immensely monumental task it was to excavate an entire city, while keeping each of the structures safely intact. Then there is the delicacy of the task with mosaics, paintings, toys, and furniture. On top of that there is the disposal of the removed material while thoroughly searching it for fragile objects. It completely blows my mind.

These everyday artifacts, so well preserved, like the crib, provide us an emotional connection with the people of the ancient world, they were just like us, living their lives surrounded by their daily comfort, their tools, their families. It's just amazing.

I got so inspired by this, that i actually made the tessalated table and filmed my first ''real'' youtube video. I just uploaded it, i hope some of you reading stumble upon it:)

I found Herculaneum more evocative than Pompeii - man6 buildings survive to two stories, and everything had a "frozen in time" feel. It was January, 20 years ago, raining like crazy. All the corner fountains were running, and in one grand house, water was falling from the little gargoyle heads around the atrium roof into the impluvium below.

I am struck by the variety of woods used to make furniture and decorative items. The level of craftsmanship could rival handmade pieces today. Such sophistication! Just amazing that these items were able to survive the centuries so we could see them.

That crib story was so sad and so human you can imagine people today bunching together trying to comfort eachother in their last moments.

As a retired Craftsman and Master Carpenter, I can appreciate the skills required to do such intricate work! Those "wallets" were especially intriguing, because I've made numerous similar items for jewelry boxes and funerary urns! All of my pieces were hand cut and assembled with ZERO metal fasteners of any kind! I only used wooden pegs and hand cut dovetail joints and glue! I dare say the tools I used were probably a lot better quality that what these Craftsmen used, which makes their work even that much more appreciated!

Truly amazing. The wooden furniture makes it much easier to relate to the lives of the Romans and illustrates how similar they were to ourselves. Thank you very much.

The gobsmacking artistry and workmanship of bygone days ...

This is indeed the FIRST time I’ve seen any video showing the wooden structures and furniture found at Herculaneum! The craftsmanship on these items is incredible. Definitely not your average IKEA merchandise 😂 This was fascinating.

I love the wooden artifacts more than the marble sculptures because of their fragility.

Wow, ... this is truly amazing. Those conservators did one hell of a job. They must excel at playing puzzles. Think about it... All those shreds lying about and yet they were able to recreate all this. Really amazing. Thanks for sharing. Humanity is still capable of doing great things. This made my day

I was a furniture maker for 25 years and watching this video impressed on me how similar the Roman furniture looks to the style of furniture I made.

Thank you! Rather emotional seeing the everyday objects used by these people frozen in time. This is a historical site yes, but it is also a tragedy.

As a collector, I try to find items just like these-items that very rarely survive decomposition or destruction. I’ve amassed a collection of fossils, figurines, jewelry and pottery, but wood is very hard to find and expensive for obvious reasons. This video was definitely a treat. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the video! My grandfather was a furniture maker in Michigan late 1800s, early 1900s. Some of the same joinery techniques were used

It was a tragedy almost 2000 years ago, but... everything and everybody will eventually meet their fate, and we are getting a mindblowing time capsule. Thank you so much for these reports!

Este trist ce sa întâmplat la Pompei și Herculaneum,dar este bine pentru omul modern de astăzi să vadă lumea din trecut, să vadă obiecte și locuri care au aparținut cândva unor oameni ca noi!

mind blowing, I love old stuff, but this stuff made out of wood and so well preserved i have never imagined existed, there must be more out there

makes u realize how beautiful the world around them appeared and how much they actually had in their modern contemporary technology... everything seemed to be very ornate and crafted with a sort of pride....

Absolutely awesome! I'll never understood how many people have no interest in this, in their history, the history of mankind, everything that it comes with.... our magnificently beautiful story 🔥🤘🔥

Better and more durable than what people make today

Thank you Darius for sharing those extraordinary examples of woodworking in antiquity. As someone who has designed and crafted furniture, and home decor out of wood those examples were a testament to the craftsmen's design aesthetic, and craftsmanship.

The ancient world is forever intriguing

Many thanks for this presentation; I've been fascinated by the Herculaneum archeological findings since I was a kid, and this video brings so many to life.

Wow, romans really had impressive craftsmanship 😳

Shows you the craftsmanship of ancient craftsman they created works that today would be hard pressed to make.. open your eyes people to the past..

Delightfully hosted tour and eloquently produced video. Thank you

This and Austia Antica among my favorite ruins

Wow. Spectacular. The wooden lararium is very similar to a Japanese butsudan, a household shrine used by Buddhists.

as a former cabinet maker, I have to say, it looks they they had machines to do some of the work. like the bevels on some of the tables. that would be made with a router. that is , a spinning piece of metal to make uniform even bevels. I can't imagine how they would do that by hand so perfectly. even in the super distorted condition , you can see that at one time, these were masterpieces of woodworking.

Simply fascinating! I hope I get to come over there to see these things before I die. It’s literally a Time Machine surely to be treasured for generations to come and MUST be maintained to do so. Very important that we preserve these items.

I love the kitty there. I always see videos on Pompeii, but hardly any on Herculaneum. The baby's crib was sad to see that the parents and baby did not survive. Thank you for these videos,very interesting.💕🌹

Those tiny god and goddess statues are very realistic, and I bet kids played with them, they are too cool.❤😊

Thank you for the tour of wooden Roman artifacts. It was fabulous to see such treasures. Never heard of wooden coin purses in Rome before, and to see one still in working condition was a treat.

thanks

Thank you. Great to see

Amazing. I love the little shrines. I never have seen, heard, or thought of them before. So nice.

I love the coffered ceiling with WOOD Then inlaid with wood in the interior! What a cool idea! I could literally do this No drywalling needed

I loved Herculaneum much more than Pompeii. Been twice and 3 times in Pompeii.

The information you provide is priceless, Darius. Truly priceless. i guess your programs are the only one that are scholarly and scientific, but presented easy enough for the public to understand,, AND so fanstatically uptodate. I do not complement people on KZfaq that often, and pretty critical in fact. So, yours are the plleasant exceptions. Thanks

seeing those woodworks is inspiring me oml

overwhelmed by your report! Thanks!

Cant believe the craftsmanship.... Wow.

If I recall correctly the praetorian found on the shore was a carpenter as evidenced by the tools found with him. Why he was carrying them is speculative but I imagine he had them to make repairs to boats to hasten escape.

Thanks very much for this video! This is an incredibly well done presentation of tremendously important objects.

The structure of the houses and the town is indistinguishable from any town built before the XX century anywhere in southern Europe. Astonishing.

Absolutely incredible. It’s a little breathtaking to think how much of the ancients’ work- architectural, literary, etc- is lost due to it having been produced in perishable materials. Entire civilizations in the Amazon basin, for instance. I mean, how much of our own tech is imperishable? How much is made of wood, or paper, or is subject to water damage? All the above makes the continued existence of artifacts like these even more amazing.

Very interesting I worked with wood professionally for about 10 years and it's amazing to see that the level of understanding of wood joinery is alive and well thousands of years ago.

Is this still open? Everywhere online says it ended December 2023. I'm visiting Naples in June and would love to see this exhibition.

BEAUTIFUL

I been many times in Naples for business. It is curious that although I visited Pompeii often I never been in Herculaneum as I never have to never have time to visit it. Shame on me! I must go there! Thanks for sharing this very interesting video 👍 👍👍

Thanks. The movies always depict Ancient Rome as marble and metal, but there was probably far more wood used that didn't survive, as you've mentioned.

This video presentation is FABULOUS! I can’t wait to take it all in again on my big screen HDTV! Thank you!

As a designer these objects satisfied a wish to understand the daily life of ancient Rome.

This was fantastic eye candy, and the cat made it even better, thank you!

Yes sir, I've been a woodworker and Antique conservator preservationist restoration all my life "now this video is certainly got my attention" , because you're right we hardly ever see wooden furniture to survive Through this amount of Time.

Incredible! To me, what is so surprising is much of the furniture looks like many modern pieces. Looking at the cradle, it is very much like a cradle that could be used today. Amazing how these wooden products survived so well. Great video, thanks so much. Liked and Subbed.

This video was quite a treat, thanks for sharing!

WOW thanks for sharing some amazing history that survived the eons. 👍👍👍👍👍

Incredible.

Darius is the boy when it comes to Ancient Rome kidd 💯💪🏻

For quite some time Herculaneum is so much more interesting than Pompeji. There is so many things waiting for the Interested! ☝🏻😎

Wow, that was amazing! One can almost imagine how people lived, what was important to them, and even their fear as the eruption engulfed them. Thanks for telling this story! 🙂

Yet another fantastic video!

I went to Herculaneum and saw a few of these artifacts. My favorite was the fresco showing a domestic scene from a house... and sitting next to it in the museum... is the table depicted in the fresco... carbonized but clearly the same table. AMAZING! I am planning my next trip back to Italy soon... because even after two trips... I still want to see more.

Thank you for sharing this! Things I've never seen!!! 😊

Wow, such treasures! Thanks for posting.

This is great. I was just there but didn’t know about the furniture was in a place to be viewed. Great video.

Incredible, I imagined they used little bags to carry the coins. And that cat seemed alive, the level of conservation is impressive.

Great museum experience from your video!

Amazing. The world's oldest known wooden structure was discovered in Zambia and dates back around 476,000 years. Another ancient wooden artifact is the Shigir Idol, a 9-foot tall wooden sculpture found in a Russian peat bog. Recent analysis has dated the Shigir Idol to around 12,500 years old. Additionally, archaeologists have discovered evidence of olive wood in ancient Egyptian settlements dating back to around 2551-2523 BCE

Those box wallets are so haunting. People literally tried to buy their lives with those. Crazy

Enjoyed the Master Class and now a video with more explanation of the wood. Wonderful!

@13:00 around there... your descriptions of the reveal, the anticipation, the fans, the uncovering of clues. Such a great time to be alive, be an adult, be immersed. Nowadays, we're fed dog terds in paper bags and told they're gold bars by Disney and d.e.i. directors

Absolutely love this channel and your videos ❤

Just amazing, fascinating. I need to visit Herculaneum. I did see Pompei in 2013. But once is never enough.

You are a treasure. Thank you for your vids

Incredible..thank you

This is wonderful video. Thank you.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Absolutely magnificent ❤❤❤

You bring it to life very nicely; thank you :)

This is amazing! Thank you so much.

Beautiful craftsmanship and showing that talent and quest for beautiful objects is not just a goal of the last couple of centuries.

Thanks for the video - I'm so annoyed that Herculaneum was "closed" for three days when I went to see it. I rocked up about 12 times to get in... no info available, just a "no no no". I'd been to Pompeii twie before but desperately wanted to see Herculaneum. Now I want to see it even more! So, that's a return trip for sure. Thanks particularly for speaking in a normal voice and just describing matter-of-factly what you're showing, and not speaking like you're doing a trailer for a horror movie, like they do on the Dumbscovery Channel.

This is a walk through the past, another era in time. And and an ancient world. So intriguing to see artifacts thousands of years old.

You see architectural ruins, swept clean of their original suroundings and trappings. Maybe an isolated part of a home at a dig. And you think that there had to be so much more to their lives than these barren relics. All the little things that you have in your daily life, some practical, some for decor. Some little personal treasures. Something "just for nice" on a shelf. So you are thinking did they have things sort of similar, or is our experience far off from anything they knew.?? But all those things are always long gone. Even the fabulous find of King Tut, was somebody's tomb, not their living existence, not daily life. Piled up for effect, not function. But here are people's daily lives, left in an instant. Some as fresh and bright as last week. A childs crib, remarably a twin of something bought last week, as though to say a baby's needs will always be the same... Their love of decoration ..walls, floors, ceilings. The thought and care someone spent on a public room, like any wife hoping to impress.guests. Their love of colour, design.The little niceties, even of structure, that make life easier, better. All those things so usually missing, that would make people's lives real ...are here. But it is devestating that a real city so obviously georgeous and alive, built with such love and care, was blotted out in a day. Still, at least their legacy of beauty remains.

Great! Thank you very much for the video!!!

Amazing

absolutely incredible.

Wow Never seen these before

Thank you for posting this! I had no idea how advanced these folk were at metallurgy, it’s just so incredible.

I appreciate the enthusiasm, they are preserved spectacularly well, that's true. But to say that they seem like they were made "yesterday" is too much, at least for me.

Every wood worker hopes their work will last a thousand years. Imagine 2000.

Very Interesting

4:19 - Pause here. You can see the Greek Key Link pattern - still popular today. On buildings, stationary (as border,) and even necklaces/bracelets. It's technically a type of swastika pattern - but all a swastika meant in the ancient past was "protection & good fortune." Some people "just like the look." May have been nothing more than that. Design choice. But, for the superstitious (and Romans in general were VERY superstitious!) it's an important way to magically protect the person using the furniture/bed. Since the wood carving is so rough - one can guess the wood portion was not meant to be seen. It likely supported a LAVISH inlay or layer of ivory for the white pattern, and perhaps a stark, contrasting black onyx background. Or - perhaps it was colored! Any precious stone from travertine to amethysts could have been the background for the pattern. Exquisite! Ty for this video. How amazing this has survived. Can't wait to find out where the wood came from. I'm sure some tests could tell if it was local, European, or exotic. Perhaps imported from Africa.

The crib & wallets! Wow! So sad and fascinating at the same time. Trying to escape, all the person could do was grab his wallet, and run as far as he could - to the shore.

Outstanding presentation tha k you for posting!