Hi everybody this is Bruce here Welcome to my youtube channel
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video Hey everybody Bruce here have you ever been to a place and said to yourself boy if I
ever get the chance I'd really like to come back and see this place again this
is one of them right here this is Herculaneum right near Naples
Italy about five miles south of the city Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 ad and
buried this city of about 5,000 ancient Roman citizens and they weren't ancient
at the time their ancient now in about 86 feet of debris and the entire city
was completely buried it wasn't rediscovered until about the 1700s one
day a farmer decided to drill a well look for some water and lo and behold he
hit something solid about 90 feet down and figured out there's something there
that isn't natural because it wasn't just a rock anyway some digging later a
bunch of mining shafts later and sure enough ancient Roman artifacts started
to to be recovered so over the hundreds of years of time this city has come
out like Pompeii it too was buried by the same eruption but luckily for us
Herculaneum us in much better condition Pompeii has really been overrun by two
and a half million tourists a year the ruins are deteriorating badly and the
the Italian government is scrambling as fast as they can to to preserve Pompeii
Herculaneum on the other hand has been well maintained now for a quite a number
of years hasn't had near the number of tourists and as you can see here the
city a lot of it is quite intact now there has been restoration work of
course and there is shoring up going on and that type of thing but look at some
of these illustrations on these walls this is 2,000 years old
exposed to the elements somewhat but is being protected and sheltered there's
actually a roof above this structure so the
archaeologists or the last number of decades have put roofing structures over
these ruins as best they can to protect the most precious of these of these
walls that you see here it's really something to be here you're walking
through this town with a tour guide and you're kind of half listening to the
person then you're just overwhelmed by what you see this here is a a steam room
that was used by the ancient Romans that's a water fountain there here's a
mosaic tiled floor 2,000 years old you can still see its detail it's a bit
warped because of all the weight of the the ash and pumice that was on top of it
for all those years here's a bit of a courtyard in one of the villas and I
zoomed in on a couple of the paintings that were put up there you'll see her
shortly here we go it's incredible just to see these colors vibrant as they are
they were obviously preserved over these thousands of years by the ash itself and
here we are today we get a chance to really enjoy it and see it and and
marvel at it I I'm just blown away by this
anyway the sea itself the Mediterranean Sea is two miles further away Pompeii or
Herculaneum was right on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea so much ash fell
that the seashore is two miles further out and you ever get the chance you got
to go here folks support my channel with patreon need all the help we can get we
want to do this full-time I want to thank Google Earth for this
fantastic image of what's been uncovered so far there still I think what I hear
three-quarters of the town is still to be uncovered thanks for visiting my page
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