Dougga is one of my favorite sites. I love how you can follow the main road and the different passages winding around and in between the different buildings. I used my picture of the latrines as a background for Zoom meetings at work.

@Tubehauge

20 күн бұрын

haha thats amazing!

Thank you for sharing this incredible location.

I visited Dougga last year. It is an absolutely stunning site that you can fully explore and beautiful countryside views.

Great video. I know very little about Roman Africa and its non-Roman cultures, and now I know more.

Your journeys are wonderful! I have thoroughly enjoyed all your channels and applaud your desire to keep Hellinistic, Greco-Roman and Roman civilization alive. I only hope our younger generations will see the value in what you are doing.

My favourite part of Dougga is the trip you take to get there. It really is in the middle of nowhere even for Tunisia and when you get there despite being so well preserved there is no limits on where you can walk really. It truly fits a town on the edge of the empire as well as giving you such a vivid feel as to how these people were living.

this makes me so hungry for some travelling

So many interesting conversations must have taken place, with everyone facing each other, pooping.

Oooh, the communal sponge-on-a-sticks. Been a while since I heard someone mention those. :P

@Breakfast_of_Champions

21 күн бұрын

The experts are actually not so sure they were used the way it's being suggested here😉

Super high quality content!

It's remarkable how even the smaller communities of the Roman world were still endowed with permanent theatres, entertainment and this particular brand of it being obviously of prime concern to the state. I wonder where the performers came from (local or touring), and what kind of fare they offered to the audiences (high literary classics or lowbrow ephemeral farces, or some mixture thereof).

@bobfrog4836

21 күн бұрын

It's quite the infrastructure for such a small population.

Fantastic! So informative, good camera work. Thank you so much

Thank you for this very educational video! Great site.

I like how you can see the ruts in the road at 6:11, from thousands upon thousands of carts wheeled through that street.

Wonderfull video, thanks

My guy. You're filling this Rick Steves shaped hole in my heart. Thanks for that.

What was the water source for the city? Any ruins associated with this infrastructure? Thanks for posting this fascinating video?

@alaingadbois2276

17 күн бұрын

There’s an aqueduct coming into the city from the southwest. Arches over a small valley remain.

I found Tunisia to be dripping with ancient ruins. Just scuffing a flat spot in the ground might reveal a mosaic.

Beautiful.thanks😊 for sharing

Was there several years ago. Amazing destination.

That area must be very tectonically stable for those columns or towers to have survived. Or are they "restored" by the Italian or French? I know that the mausoleum was restored after being demolished by an English asshat in the 19th century, but it was apparently intact previously.

@scenicroutestothepast

21 күн бұрын

Although the site has not suffered extensively from earthquake damage, most of the columns had to be set back up by the French

Hey do you have any videos on Timgad? are you planning on visiting?

@scenicroutestothepast

21 күн бұрын

One is coming out tomorrow! Stay tuned...

@rickb3078

20 күн бұрын

He just did

@1905juan

20 күн бұрын

wow! what a coincidence haha ❤️

Wonderful. I really like your videos.

What a lovely environment.

Feel like Roman Africa is not talked about enough. It was super urbanized and the cavalry from the region was super famous.

Absolutely amazing & cool!!!

Libya also has some amazing Roman and ancient greek cities i wish to visit

@bobfrog4836

21 күн бұрын

Someday....

Very cool. Thanks for this.

Wonderful, thanks🙂

It's on my list for the Autumn trip

A very evocative presentation! Thank you!

Wow ! Thanks 4 the great video!

Thanks. Please make a similar video about Volubulis (Morocco).

Oh, hi. I knew that voice. Glad to see another video from you. Thank you.

Wow, fascinating.

wish I'd been able to go

Very nice .

Do you ever have 'Ron Swanson in Home Depot' moments when guides approach you to offer a tour at these sites?

Very comprehensive walk around a fantastic Roman city. North Africa has always been in our interests list to visit, how safe is Tunisia to travel all by yourself? Maybe rent a car?

@scenicroutestothepast

21 күн бұрын

Tunisia is very safe, though renting a car is not for the faint of heart

Theatres and baths get the best outlooks often.

Super interesting. It looks fantasticly preserved and doesn't appear to have a load of modern development encroaching on it from all angles, unlike pretty much all the rest of Roman cities.

Great. Did you go to El-Jem?

@scenicroutestothepast

18 күн бұрын

Yes - I'll be releasing that video in about a month

@munbruk

17 күн бұрын

@@scenicroutestothepast You will not be far from where I was born lol. Many roman sites in Tunisia.

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Great video! I really like the way to cover the placement of the Capitolium. I am starting to become a doubter in the sponge stick for ancient TP. Seems more likely the keyhole, which sort of resembles our current public toilet seats, were more likely to help prevent urination on the seating surface. This is my only contribution to ancient archeology thus far.

In such a hot climate, how was the frigidarium made to be cold, or was that just relative to other rooms?

7:15 “…said to be a brothel, but there is no evidence for this” .. said as a pool in shape of phallus fills the frame 😂

Sure wish we could make time travel a reality so we could visit Dougga, as it was.

I can provide pictures and locations of other lesser known roman cities in Tunisia if you are interested.

I often wonder how any of these kind of places survive at all - the urge to use the building materials for new constructions in later epochs must have been immense. Our modern sensibility for the past did not apply in previous times.

@EllieMaes-Grandad

8 күн бұрын

Even post-WW2, parts of Hadrian's Wall were being destroyed by quarrying in the search for quality stone . . .

High up as it is, some reference to water supply would be useful.

I've never seen such a fine 12-holer! Honest, that's a pretty nice toilet for Arkansas standards!

My guess is that the first "dry wipe" was the best and the rinse-dip would have been for successive wipes or a courtesy equivalent to flushing to toilet if you were leaving the sponge-stick behind. No doubt there were a few phantom poo-stickers in every town. The misanthrope or comedian, who could guess? Trying to deduce the culprit would have supplied great gossip material.

@gregorybowden1515

12 күн бұрын

Remember a healthy diet produces a firm stool so less likely they had runny situations in ancient times again due to their healthy diet also a well-known fact that cavities were rare

Ooo .. I'm first! 🤣👍

Time to restore ! Put in some permaculture, pipes and tech, call the tourists

I have to ask, were the sponges on a stick a one time use thing, or did some poor slave have to clean all the sponges at the end of the day, just saying, that's a shitty job

Interesting how the byzantines did quite a bit of damage to ancient Rome, look at many cities and they demolished to build churches , forts etc. And lets not forget the gothic wars, that truly laid waste to Rome and Milan. Its almost a meme, "we are here to save Rome"

nothing pertinent to add. just feeding the algo-deities of the tube-y'all

What can i say....evry where Greeks