It's annoying when you decide to build a basement in rome, only to find out that another guy had that same idea 2000 years earlier.

@peterclarke7240

26 күн бұрын

Except you discover your basement is where he had his loft. 🤣

@BoomBillion

26 күн бұрын

That was someone's penthouse 2000 years ago.

@scusachannel1682

26 күн бұрын

This actually did happen, but in Naples. Basically, one time a group of archaeologists found out about a lady's very peculiar-looking basement. Turns out, it was actually the changing rooms of an ancient Roman theatre. The theatre is completely underground, and on guided tours you enter the theater from what used to be the old lady's house

@notenum1

25 күн бұрын

@@scusachannel1682she should’ve gotten land rights. Not her fault her land was badass

@netanelkatoa3806

25 күн бұрын

wait they took her house?

Archaeologists working on modern cities of ancient origin are dying of success

@giorgiodoveri2585

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately Italian archaeologists are in low numbers and seriously underpaid😢

@GandalfTheTsaagan

Ай бұрын

​@@giorgiodoveri2585 Yeah, that's unfortunately typical of these type of sciences

@JuicedOnKids

29 күн бұрын

​@@giorgiodoveri2585If we simply blow ancient discoveries up we'd have no need for archeological thereby fixing the payment problems. I should really run for mayor or something.

@SuperUAP

29 күн бұрын

​@@JuicedOnKidsyour name.. juiced on kids.. What are you p Diddy bouncer? 💀

@zachblair3794

29 күн бұрын

@@JuicedOnKidswith a name like that you’re perfect, hell go for president

The running joke is that, eventually, the building of the metro C will be halted by the finding of ancient remains of the original construction sites of metro C

Same in Greece. What they did in Athens was they would leave the statues they found in place. There is a plexiglass around the statue and it's lit up. So you can see it while in the subway. It's very cool.

@lkj974

25 күн бұрын

that makes me want to go to Athens and ride the subway.

@sparksmcgee6641

25 күн бұрын

Most places have to leave items in place. The problem is when it's in the middle of the train track.

@Aconitum_napellus

23 күн бұрын

Should've just got Elgin to nick them.

@malindarayallen

17 күн бұрын

Okay, that's just cool.😎

@SaraWilsonBasturk

16 күн бұрын

I was so excited when I saw that in the Athens subway 😁

My mom went to Rome and a tour guide told her "we can't build a new subway because every time we try, we uncover another spot Cesar pissed on".

@TheMegaProtoMan

Ай бұрын

A very pessimistic way of referring to discovering relics of our important past...

@Deathstorm501

Ай бұрын

​@@TheMegaProtoManthe city the man lives in is like 3000 years old, he's earned the right to complain about all the wonderful archaeological finds that make living there so terribly inconvenient

@Mikustan39

Ай бұрын

@@TheMegaProtoManBro, it was meant to be a joke. Even I know that!

@suchnothing

Ай бұрын

@@TheMegaProtoMan bro just wants functional public transit and reduced traffic congestion and pollution 😭

@anthonyorosco1850

Ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@TheMegaProtoManor a comedic way of referring to it since you’re downplaying something that is big and important

As someone who lives in Rome I can confirm taking your bike to work is the best way to end up as a traffic casualty

@FancyRPGCanada

26 күн бұрын

I took the bus a few times in Rome, seemed fine to me 😂

@sugasheeze

25 күн бұрын

As an American who lived in Italy for 3 years, I can confirm that Italians are -- by far -- the worst drivers in the Western world. Y'all almost as bad as Afghans fr fr.

@tova1412

25 күн бұрын

​@@FancyRPGCanadaI've also taken the bus in Rome and holy shit you really do have to hold onto the railings there, that shit goes faaast

@markkulyas2418

25 күн бұрын

Vespa🎉

@onehairybuddha

24 күн бұрын

A little traffic enforcement in Rome would work wonders, no doubt.

My Dad used to work with engineers on the London Underground. They often hated having to halt development because of archeological reasons. But he loved it - classical and medieval architecture was what made him an architect in the first place.

@Flipflopflopper

24 күн бұрын

In Ireland when building I think a Aldi or Lidl, they ended up unearthing a Stone Age structure in Dublin, so what they did was still build the Lidl on top of it with a glass window where you can look down. I always thought that was funny

Archeologists must be thrilled when somebody tries a big construction project.

@erinmoore6463

14 күн бұрын

Un ironically! Because the government de ties more funding to those projects than archaeology.

@mikov6486

12 күн бұрын

There’s gotta be a dedicated archeo department in Roman construction companies at this point

In London there’s a thing called the ‘Boudican Destruction Layer’ that’s made up of burnt buildings from when Boudica sacked London

@user-te5pd5zs8g

Ай бұрын

I originally read that as the “Bodacious Destruction Layer”.

@johnwalker1229

Ай бұрын

Wasn’t she like a Celtic “queen” war leader or something. Why am I asking when google exists

@localdrugseller6431

Ай бұрын

​@@johnwalker1229 She really "Slayed 💅💅"

@frederickthegreat3912

Ай бұрын

@@johnwalker1229 yeah something like that, she led a rebellion against Roman rule in Britain. As you said you can Google for more info lol

@a.pigeon

Ай бұрын

​@@johnwalker1229Pretty much. Celtic women were damn scary

At this point they need to build their trains above ground

@user-jn4sw3iw4h

28 күн бұрын

Also non-trivial. But likely easier. At least it will solve the 'fine we'll go under that too. What do you mean "There's more"? '

@Schmidtelpunkt

27 күн бұрын

That only helps to a degree. The problem are the first few meters, which usually are removed for normal train tracks on street level as well. Something as trivial as putting in cables under the street can become a problem that way.

@user-jn4sw3iw4h

27 күн бұрын

@@Schmidtelpunkt A key issue in this case is, how the normally reasonable assumption "The problem are the first few meters" has shown to not apply to Rome. The first plan was to go under 'that interesting layer', but they kept finding more interesting layers. (not just wider, also deeper)

@Erideah

27 күн бұрын

Maybe it's time to give up and wait for flying cars and buses. Any day now

@cosmicriptid

26 күн бұрын

Not much less crowded on the surface. And hardly any straight lines

We have the same problem in Greece. Thessaloniki has no parking spots and they've been digging for years now, but keep finding ancient finds. It's an ongoing joke that they'll never finish the subway.

@Neimonster

2 күн бұрын

Also a convenient way to launder money. They don't find anything in Finland and it never gets done there either.

İzmir is historic city too and sometimes subway/metro construction stops for a few months but in the end it's completed and some stations are a bit larger and have a small a museum inside them. A few pieces from the dig site.

There’s like a full city block sized hole in the ground where they were going to build something and discovered a bunch of different buildings including a few ancient temples. They excavated the entire thing in the 20s and now it’s just sort of there. But after they finished excavation homeless cats started to move into the protected green space and locals began caring for them. Now, in a cave underneath the temple, is a cat sanctuary called Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary where volunteers care for something like 6000 cats. And you can visit! And it’s lovely!

@Teresule

Ай бұрын

Btw, Caesar was killed in that place (not in the usual Senate building, because it was under repair after a fire). There are yearly reenactments of his death.

@evilsharkey8954

Ай бұрын

There are stray cats in the Colosseum, too. You can sit with a cat on your lap on your visit. Pompeii has stray, friendly dogs and a fund to keep them fed and get them adopted out.

@BOT_JERRY

29 күн бұрын

Cat meat is lovely when grilled correctly. 🤤

@sagesufferswell

29 күн бұрын

That sounds incredible. Cats sit where they fits.

@Moondog1109

29 күн бұрын

That's gotta smell just wonderful

Rome subways turning into the Win98 pipes screensaver.

@amykathleen2

Ай бұрын

Thank you for the instant nostalgia! I remember waiting for the screensaver to kick on so my sister and I could watch the pipes.

@christophfischer2773

27 күн бұрын

wow. that is a callback.

@johanlahti84

26 күн бұрын

I remember it from win 3.1

@MCNeko6554

23 күн бұрын

Most underrated comment of all time lmao, I forgot that screensaver even existed.

I love hearing about these finds. It's gives us an amazing glimpse into it past that can teach us so much about our ancient ancestors, but also a scary realization of how many times whole civilizations has been at risk of being wiped out

I would buy more subway if a portion of the proceedings went to more archeological finds

We were told during a visit to Rome that the subway system isn't the only problem. They can't improve things like internet infrastructure (e.g., running fiber) for the same reason. WiFi in the city center is painfully slow for that reason.

@acain6803

Ай бұрын

You should tell them about the incredible technology of putting cables on poles. You could call them "internet poles".

@seigeengine

Ай бұрын

@@acain6803 lol, like yeah, can't put wires anywhere but underground, right?

@joshs5577

Ай бұрын

@@acain6803But then it an eyesore in a city where tourism is one of its big industries so they’re in a real catch 22 when it comes to things like placing wires

@vazanere

29 күн бұрын

@@joshs5577Put art around them...

@joshs5577

29 күн бұрын

@@vazanere The issue isn’t just that they would be ugly but that it’s not preservative. While this likely would be less of an issue in less conservation focused areas of Rome it would be an issue for places that are conservation focused. It would also not eliminate the issue the fact that cables will need to cross spans and that since fiber optics are made of glass are much more susceptible to wear then copper requiring more robust infrastructure than is in place if it even is. From what I can tell from the few minutes of news searching and Google street view most of the electric is already underground

this is also a problem in dublin. there is a lidl on angier street that has glass floors so you can see the archaeology

@TheJunky228

Ай бұрын

That's awesome

@Direblade11

29 күн бұрын

Ghosts be looking up skirt

@hurgcat

28 күн бұрын

gods lidl is so based

@fifiwozere

28 күн бұрын

Penneys (Primark) in Waterford did the same thing with the old city wall. They have a glass floor and wall around it

@ramseykeilani9569

28 күн бұрын

I go to that Lidl sometimes, its just down the street from my school: it's probably the coolest grocery store in existence

What would be cool would be if they could convert one of those old structures into a train station building. Repurposing it, but still maintaining its original look.

They need to just build around it and add the finds as underground museums to the subway system.

The sudden "It's all antique! Come on!" before immediately returning to the rant made me break down laughing

@victorcapel2755

27 күн бұрын

I think we use the word differently in Europe and the US. "Antique" is something from Antiqity, the time period between 800 BC to 500 CE, and from the mediterranian area. Not just something old. In collegueal speech though, it's something really old, even in Europe. But I get the impression that in the US, something 300 years old is "Antique", in Europe it's just "somewhat old". I did construction work at an island in my city where we dug up furnaces and foundations from the mid 1600s, the archeloges (we have to call them by law if we find stuff we suspect is old and wasn't already marked on a map) wasn't the least excited (I did thought it was kind of cool though), they go through stuff like that on a very regular basis.

@peterclarke7240

26 күн бұрын

Literally a "tell me you're from a country that only existed for a few hundred years, without telling me you're from a country that's only existed for a few hundred years" moment 🤣

@samable668

26 күн бұрын

It was a funny comment but break down? Really?

@KateCat420

25 күн бұрын

​@@samable668 They're obviously exaggerating, as almost everyone does on the internet. When I say lol, I'm probably not laughing out loud.

@sparksmcgee6641

25 күн бұрын

Other than the fact that he was wrong about what he was commenting on and didn't understand what he was reading.

(In the future)Welcome to Rome, we have a superway skyrail because we couldn't dig anywhere without coming across crazy archeological finds.

@InsaneGreatsword

14 күн бұрын

“We found too many random rooms like memorial to the battle of Cannae or Scipio’s childhood bedroom so we decided building into the sky would be easier.”

it's always fascinating that over time slowly this stuff gets buried under dirt and rock like 2000 years or so is what it takes and all of it buried underneath the modern city we know today

Way cooler than a subway.

This sounds like the type of thing in a D&D campaign I SHOULD ADD THIS TO MY D&D CAMPAGIN

@KateCat420

25 күн бұрын

DO IT!!

@hungryewok1684

25 күн бұрын

Yes, you should

@ThunderMuffinMan

25 күн бұрын

Lemme join

@ryanomeara683

24 күн бұрын

You in NC?! I need a group to play with! Or hell discord just let me play!

@ThunderMuffinMan

24 күн бұрын

@@ryanomeara683 AYOOOO! IM ON THE COAST

I'm from Rome and I can tell you this is absolutely real we don't even have the resources to keep digging up things, we've come to a point where sometimes we just cover them back

@joiskyhigh

28 күн бұрын

The idea of Italian engineers digging up half a buried fresco before sighing irritably and covering it back up is very funny

@annahappen7036

22 күн бұрын

Kinda of funny but also tragic.

@Wicked_Knight

21 күн бұрын

Man swears in Italian- His coworker: Giuseppe, what's wrong‽ Giuseppe: Fresco, Luca. Another freaking fresco! Luca: Not again... That's the second this week. Cover it back up. Giuseppe: It's to bad, it's a rather nice fresco. Sadly covers fresco- 😅

One really cool thing is that they actually have whole galleries of their archaeological findings built inside of some of the subway stations!

Thanks for giving me yet another totally random topic of conversation to share with co workers when i'm forced to be in their proximity

Ooh you know what they should do? Make a whole bunch of tiny museums in these tunnels where you can walk around and look at the buried structures! And connect them using the same metro tunnels, repurposed for bikes! Imagine going to work by taking your bike, going into underground tunnels, and quietly cycle past millenia-old buried amphitheaters. That'd be so cool

@agent8playz889

Ай бұрын

In Amsterdam they took some of the findings and put them in glass next to the escalator

@Connecticutsparky

Ай бұрын

There are a couple I saw where they did actually build a building over the ruins.

@nona8422

Ай бұрын

There has been a Rome tour (at least 50 years ago that I took) that included a tour of a “cemetery”, under streets of Rome where you could go down into the “Catacombs”, which is an ancient burial site(s), so in reading about this find wasn’t a surprise.

@MaximillianRobesphere

Ай бұрын

Preeeecisely!

@NIRDIAN1

Ай бұрын

One of the newer Underground stations actually IS a museum you just... pass through.

I spent 95% of this video contemplating the impact of sandwich shops on archeology.

@chango.-.

28 күн бұрын

American problems lmao I thought it was the sandwich subway aswell

@Nadia72639

27 күн бұрын

Our public transportation is so underdeveloped, the only subway we know are the sandwich shops 😭

@BakeXlove11

26 күн бұрын

Hahaha dang, it took me a second to realize it wasn't about Subway sandwich shops either. Welp, at least I wasn't the only one 😂

It still amazes me how stuff like an amphitheater can just get buried over time. Eventually people forget it was even there.

I would be in awe if I lifted some floor boards and discovered that I had access to a vast public building. I literally dream about this sort of thing. I think I'm an explorer by nature but a paperclip machine operator by day.

I've lived in Rome for the vast majority of my life, and i've actually taken a course on this exact subject, so i feel that a couple of things should to be clarified. 1) Metro C is already MOSTLY open, a lot of the stops have been fully operational for almost a decade and another one is supposed to open in a year or two. 2) During the last 40 years, Metro A and Metro B have been significantly expanded and, somewhat, modernized. Metro C is the third subway going trough the city and therefore needs to share it's construction budget with the upkeep budget of the other two. 3) The last operational stop of Metro C (San Giovanni) is effectively a small museum, in wich a lot of the findings that have been dug up during construction are freely witnessable to the public, with plaques explaining what they are, how old they are, at wich depht they were found and so on. It's actually really cool! Presumably they will do similar things for all following stops located in the historical centre of the city. 4) The biggest discovery ever made thanks to Metro C's excavation is, arguably, an entire Caserma Equites AKA a place where the roman cavalry was recruited and trained. This includes the stables for the horses, the sleeping quarters of the soldiers and even a small altar where they could pray.

@Direblade11

29 күн бұрын

As someone in a small Canadian city, I could not imagine a subway as anything other than a sandwich place

@Timmir00

29 күн бұрын

This is all pretty cool to hear

@IW3527

28 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing this information with us! Even with all the delays due to archeological finds y'all are still getting more trains moving than Houston Texas has in about the same amount of time 😂

@NicozStrat

27 күн бұрын

Looks like you never have been in Milan and look at the Speed they build their tubes. Romans deserve better

@melinaalba63

27 күн бұрын

You cannot believe how much I envie you for living in rome. I only went there 4 times in my life and everytime I loved it A little bit more. I'm sure it has many issues if you actually live there, I imagine the prices are incredibly high, but it's the most beautiful And interesting place on earth I have seen so far

Na they need to keep doing it and just hire an archeologist as the head so they dont have to keep calling one. 😂

@MtVesuvius

Ай бұрын

They've hired tons of archeologists, and they are still working.

@justarandomgothamite5466

29 күн бұрын

I've heard that apparently, oftentimes large European construction projects will have both archeologists and bomb defusal techs on call because when digging in Europe, two things are inevitable: archeology and bombs.

@Mayakran

29 күн бұрын

@@justarandomgothamite5466thank god bombs are a recent invention!

@Ilidanna

28 күн бұрын

​@@justarandomgothamite5466 well, for archeologists, many contractors prefere to pretend they never saw any antique remains until someone else notice, but yeah, you want to know how to contact a sapper fast 😅 There are also other 'fun' things you can find, like fairly well preserved ww2 bodies in collapsed basements.

@rubenlarochelle1881

28 күн бұрын

They do. All excavation in Rome are co-led by the Archaeology department. Optical fiber technicians working with archaeologists is the normal standard procedure.

They kept just building on top of each other …… this opens so many questions beyond just what they found.

I've heard there's a joke that construction stopped because they found the archeological remains of the construction site

Welcome to Greece....we have the same issues here too. No matter where you build in cities and even through fields even, always some ancient ruins appear delaying construction

In the last two days I've been told 4 times I should consider specialising in Underground construction. That's where the money lies I don't think I'd get the same advice would I live in rome

@Tien-Chi

Ай бұрын

There’s Roman stuff in London too!

@FairFeline

Ай бұрын

Hahahaha

@Soguwe

Ай бұрын

@@Tien-Chi the City I'm at got completely flattened by 1945 Nothing to find here but old British bombs

@Tien-Chi

Ай бұрын

@@Soguwe rip

@Soguwe

Ай бұрын

@@Tien-Chi eh. They were Nazis, not like they didn't deserve it

That fits with the vibe of Italy 🇮🇹 😅❤

“It’s all antique”had me rolling over laughing. That’s incredible. Thanks for sharing. I love your videos.

This is what inspired the play Our Town by Thorton Wilder, actually. He was in Rome in the catacombs of some old family and heard the trolley overhead and was overwhelmed by the permanence of domesticity, and the tendency of academics to fascinate themselves with the relics of the domesticity of the past.

Same in Greece and someone feom Greece told me that they sometimes just through their finds away or bury them because if they did the proper procedure everytime nothing would get done.

@LalosSaw

26 күн бұрын

That's what happened in thessaloniki and the metro station.

@hyde1893

26 күн бұрын

that's so sad, as a history lover

@TheThingoftheSky

26 күн бұрын

At the end of the day, it's just stuff. Millennia old, but it's... just stuff. I'm probably making the lad above me mad.

@dimitrisanastopoulos8957

25 күн бұрын

​@@hyde1893we keep the important ones and throw everythibg else since there is an extremely big quantity of it.

@Number1FanProductions

24 күн бұрын

@@dimitrisanastopoulos8957I’d have no issue with this as long as there’s some archaeologist to verify it’s lack of importance Like who gives a shit about some spitoon from 3000 years ago? Not me lmfao probably millions of them buried around Europe But some insanely well preserved ruins? I really hope they don’t just destroy it for convenience…

That is amazing, and that last line had me rolling😂!

Midwest guy here. I literally thought he meant Subway sandwich shops for the first 20 seconds. I have ridden the subway many times in NYC, Chicago, etc but I drive past multiple Subway sandwiches every day. That was a hilarious idea imagining Subway shops being thwarted by ancient artifacts left and right haha!

I could only react with "wooooow" multiple times through this lmao

Well, they just need to connect them to whatever tunnels the Romans used for their subways.

@mr.voidroy6869

Ай бұрын

That's why they were probably down there. But the entries collapsed

@vituperation

Ай бұрын

​@@mr.voidroy6869They probably collapsed when Rome collapsed. In fact, the entire empire probably collapsed BECAUSE of all the subway tunnels under it.

@mr.voidroy6869

29 күн бұрын

@@vituperation haha dad really funny

@kaukospots

29 күн бұрын

just their luck tho you know they'd get get it all connected and find out all the track was a different gauge

@vituperation

29 күн бұрын

@@kaukospots For sure. It's gotta be a nightmare since the Romans definitely used imperial and here the modern Italians want to use metric.

Best one liner he’s ever had at the end lol

So simple, yet so smart and so useful.

Someone tell the British museum; they'll move it out of the way

@justmewhoelse85

Ай бұрын

A very underrated comment 😂

@iamagrape8804

28 күн бұрын

You made me snort with laughter, so thank you.

@jamescuttler8047

28 күн бұрын

You know someone doesn’t know anything about history when they use this joke

@dickygushy

28 күн бұрын

@@jamescuttler8047 I didn't claim anything about history; I referenced a very popular meme

@M50A1

27 күн бұрын

​@@jamescuttler8047boo hoo cry harder Englishman

a friend travelled the Turkish Med coast. He saw a guy working on an old car that was up on blocks. One of the blocks was a column segment 😆

Imagine having so much history , you find it everywhere you dig

Gives a whole new meaning to the word "Chamber music"

You can tell the person who wrote the article was passionate about it. 😊

having lived in italy, yes I did know :D in my city they also dug down like 5 meters to build or lay something in and ended up uncovering some ancient stuff, which blocked the project. They left it open for a couple years I think, then were like "nah this ain't it" and closed it back up lol

@iota-09

Ай бұрын

yup, sometimes they cover stuff like that back up and tell nobody so they can keep working...

It's the way I thought Hank was talking about the restaurants for a minute 😅

I never thought I would one day stuble upon a video of hank green talking about the metro in my city

Guys I have a solution, we make blimps!!! *BREAKING NEWS* Ancient Roman Floating Cities Found In The Sky Or maybe I’ll just keep biking….

@seigeengine

Ай бұрын

No, you're onto something. We'll make the tunnels out of balloons and have the subway in the sky!

@ScarySkele

Ай бұрын

@@seigeengine BRILLIANT 💡

@ariatauraso8771

Ай бұрын

Columbia?

@whoknows4780

Ай бұрын

*Tears of the Kingdom theme music plays*

@ScarySkele

Ай бұрын

@@whoknows4780 😂😂😂, nice

Just make the old stuff part of the station, when we have something to look at while waiting.

@kkrg413

Ай бұрын

I've heard they did that for a few museum-stations!

@celtic69

Ай бұрын

they’ve done that in Milan

Italians, “WE HAVE ENOUGH HISTORY! Build us a subway ffs!” 😂😂😂😂

Hank sliding lower and lower as he reads further down the text so his head doesn't cover it lol

How many attempts do they have to make before they just give up trying to build the subway?

and the government has to keep a big eye over any construction work on rome because the owners would really prefer to keep doing their thing

Ok, but imagine a subway that passes along amazing ancient sights and places; all underground.

I went to Rome recently to visit my friend and it was wild how even the subways seemed full of history

I just adore you, your delivery, and mannerisms!!❤

@mip4422

22 күн бұрын

Kinda annoying

@chanmit123

19 күн бұрын

@@mip4422 boooo

“Ah! We keep uncovering priceless artifacts! Can this get any worse” -the Italian government(probably)

@iota-09

Ай бұрын

nit the government, the workers/civilians, gov actually keeps an eye out so that workers don't just hide their findings...

If I was renovating my basement in Rome and discovered a giant amphitheater, I would never tell anyone.

I feel like it would be less of a headache for rome to make an above street level tram system.

Whats America's excuse for not trying to build more subways/public transport.

@syzl___

Ай бұрын

It costs trillions of dollars and takes decades

@SMhobo

Ай бұрын

@@syzl___ trillions? 🤔 well if they start now maybe we'll be able to get work in a reasonable time once I'm to old to drive.

@TheRandCrews

Ай бұрын

@@syzl___trillions??? Maybe like billions but highway and other road infrastructure takes most of DOT money than other forms of transportation.

@Exgrmbl

25 күн бұрын

need that money for the MIC and foreign wars

That’s cool and all but I really wonder what the process of it all ending up underground was like

@agilemind6241

Ай бұрын

A few thousand years of litter is all it takes.

when this video started i had the sub shop in mind and now im cornfused

Same thing keeps on happening in Cusco. 😊 Really grateful for that.

It bothered me when I visited Rome that to use the metro I had to go down 4 sorties just to get to the station

They should just build up and move sightseeing underground

@TheRandCrews

Ай бұрын

no way this guy used a city of regina logo as a pfp, randomest video to see this

I think it is scary to think how a building that was likely used all the time not only was forgotten, but covered up with so much dirt that it is now underground

My art historian ass laughed maniacally at the last sentence 😂😂😂

Fascinating!

Roman construction workers are probably like cool!!! But crap we are never going to get this done!!

@sparksmcgee6641

25 күн бұрын

Happens everywhere. You only hear about the 10% that's big enough we can't make it disappear in 30 mins.

Hank: "Guess you're going to have to take your bike to work, though!" Me: "..... Worth it."

I first read that as submarines and was wondering why you couldn't make submarines in Rome! 😂

here's what I don't understand about this. I understand that the tectonic plates moving bury the stuff under the soil as time moves on, but how do we just let things sink underground instead of continuing to live there? like people still live in rome, and have for millennia but somehow there keeps being a fresh slate to build new stuff on top of. how do we let the old stuff go underground??

@flowerheit4512

Ай бұрын

i also am very fuzzy on how this works but from what i understand, certain places (like rome) have a kind of reverse-erosion thing going on where sediments and soils keep accumulating and eventually bury older structures

@elenafriese891

Ай бұрын

I think a bunch of Rome died or got abandoned for a couple decades

@CWorgen5732

Ай бұрын

People run out of sideways room, so they build up. Trash, dust, weeds, old building materials, etc all pile up outside. Street level rises.

@annahackman2539

Ай бұрын

It's not necessarily that the stuff sinks underground as much as it gets covered over time with dust, sediment, and other layers of life get out over top the original bits. Just like how we always are having to clean our windows to see through them because they'll get a layer of "grime" otherwise. The layers build up slowly but they do build.

@agilemind6241

Ай бұрын

Cities almost always get buried because they are net importers from the country side. Wood, stone, food, clothing, etc... are all stuff from outside the city that gets moved into the city, and most of it never leaves it erodes into dust or decays into dirt that just accumulates everywhere very slowly.

Solution: dig your tunnels way way way deeper. Down below the oldest civilization could have been.

@miriamrosemary9110

Ай бұрын

Possibly, but if you go too deep it will eventually get too hot as you get closer to the magma... It apparently gets uncomfortably hot very quickly when you dig deep

@csus4add9

Ай бұрын

This was actually part of the strategy for the C line, but they still have to connect stations and ventilation shafts to the surface

@j.r.millstone

Ай бұрын

@@miriamrosemary9110 that's what they want you to think. They just don't want us to dig too deep and hit a lizard person nest.

@myladycasagrande863

Ай бұрын

​@@j.r.millstoneSilurians are the worst NIMBYs.

@miriamrosemary9110

Ай бұрын

@@j.r.millstone They don't want us to dig too greedily and too deep and unleash the Balrog ;)

Hahaha “antique” yellow marble is hilarious

They should make a museum and exhibits for each subway stop, a bit of a dual purpose!

Perhaps instead of subways they need to build superways

@Triaxx2

28 күн бұрын

El trains for everyone.

Now I’m imagining if they didn’t care and kept digging, we’d had subways going through half destroyed amphitheaters and decorated tunnels, that would be sick

@tammesikkema5322

Ай бұрын

Yeah, but the amphitheatre would be destroyed

@agilemind6241

Ай бұрын

@@tammesikkema5322 the amphitheatre was already effectively destroyed. You'd be no further behind than if they hadn't built the subway.

Imagine wanting to build something but you suddenly find a small part of a massive stadium

There's a similar problem in Istanbul too, that the new train line was delayed for a time. They are still digging up stuff near the old railway station, what was once the main railroad track going to Anatolia is a digging site now.

What's the most hilarious is that the reason these are such amazing archaeological finds are because people in the past just built on top of them anyways

Can't make subways, because they keep uncovering archeological finds. Can't build overground railways, because it'll ruin the current architectural landscape. Rome would really benefit from teleportation technology.

It's almost terrifying to live in a place where even the earth beneath your feet is saturated with historical proof of amazing former glory.

Anyone else wonder why there're so many subterranean structures that have been forgotten about?

@Sean-fu3mn

19 күн бұрын

mudflood👀

Happens in London too. My father, who worked in large site construction, used to tell me a lot of historical finds dug up were quietly destroyed to avoid archaeologists stopping work on the site because it was happening too much, and it was too expensive for companies.

The hair is looking great Hank!

"Poets, scholar's, and politicians " We take a time machine back and it ends up being a comedy club. 😂

"We give up. Use the bus"

In 7th grade. I wrote a short story for my creative writing project about a boy who discovered ancient architecture from long ago under his family's basment. The idea was that people built stuff on top of what was before. Well, my teacher didn't like that idea, saying it was "unrealistic" and that "nobody would do that." So I pointed to Rome for this exact reason. I still failed the project and, subsequently, the class. F- you, Ms. Calschy

It’s crazy how far underground these places ended up buried through time

This is the coolest thing I've heard in a while. It's a next level fact-ASMR for my brain

The trains and buses in Rome were so clutch.