caesar novus Posted January 11, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) Quote I'll have to set aside an afternoon or day to get through them all. I did like the Pro Walk tours last year. Only a few of these are long and atmospheric like those in https://www.youtube.com/c/ProWalks/playlists . Many are 30 minutes or even a punchy 10. One approach is to click on all the "watch later" symbols on these thumbnails so youtube makes it easy to navigate the list at leisure. I suspect Prowalks may be a history teacher for the large US Navy base near Naples, lucky guy. He used to film a bit more intrusively, but with success and higher profile he films or edits gentlemanly to a fault now. Edited January 11, 2022 by caesar novus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted January 11, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2022 Short glimpses: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted January 11, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2022 This is by far the best way to experience Diocletian's Palace, near dawn before it's multipurpose commercial uses overwhelm the place. Next maybe I will take a break from google's world of media, and search my CATV system for "rome" or "roman" or "ancient". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted January 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 (edited) So hard to choose among very diverse videos of this villa in Sicily: My spring visit to this forum was punctuated by an apocalyptic hailstorm where shelter was scarce, exit paths went under water, and a grueling flu was hatched. "Science" insists you can't get infections from wet and cold, but after experiencing about a 98% correlation I can surmise bugs must always be in us waiting for weakness. The only good video on Segovia aqueduct deserves more than it's current 7 likes! You can now live in/on Theater of Marcellus: Roman Nimes: Edited January 17, 2022 by caesar novus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispina Posted January 17, 2022 Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 Thanks for sharing these. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted January 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 (edited) Wow, here is Beit Shean in Israel, and for a longer unnarrated saunter see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v_e4-wJevI or for a shorter view of overall travel experience see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaVzbXXG0vk Nero's Golden House: Edited January 17, 2022 by caesar novus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted January 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2022 (edited) Libya: Algeria: Whew, I hope that is it from me. Find more lesser-known sites in https://www.loveexploring.com/gallerylist/70876/roman-ruins-roman-sites-around-world . There are well known ones I am skipping over so far due to whim or weak videos... Edited January 18, 2022 by caesar novus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispina Posted January 20, 2022 Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 Too many and not enough time! lol Good ones I'm sure. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted January 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2022 (edited) Thanks; some may disappear like about a quarter of my "song" posting videos, so I try to finish viewing at least one a day. I tried to choose especially entertaining or artful examples and 1 per archeo site. It's too bad the thumbnails don't show what the runtime is. Others may want to add omitted sites like Trajan's market, Pantheon, Hadrian's wall, and others for which I didn't find charismatic videos (yet). I was reminded the cost of putting off viewing things by my recent loss of 80 hours of DVR recordings due to an expired cable TV box. At least I had seen and deleted a Roman chariot racing series, which y'all might find in the "on demand" part of CaTV. But "Greek Odyssey" and "Aerial Greece" series was lost altho now rediscovered on youtube. I also lost 80+ episodes of the funniest sitcom Reno 911 which is still trickling out on channel Mtv2. Series is under revival but will probably be as terrible as their movie due to cancel culture trends, etc. Edited January 21, 2022 by caesar novus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted January 27, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2022 Jerash, Jordan ("Pompeii of the east"), and Rome's Pantheon: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted January 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2022 (edited) Three minutes each in Sagalassos Turkey, Villa Oplontis Naples, Trajan's Market Rome: (See various videos of this mountainous place under snow) (The supposed connection to Poppaea merely being a pot fragment down the road had her name) (Mary Beard wrote an article claiming this was wrongly reconstructed as a market under Mussolini) Edited January 28, 2022 by caesar novus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispina Posted January 29, 2022 Report Share Posted January 29, 2022 Thanks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted February 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2022 Hippodromes were the supreme entertainment. Unlike amphitheaters, the racetracks in Rome and Constantinople (below) were actually integrated with the emperor's palace: Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdZ2iPXjqtA Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9rMbCocKBw Part 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZuLZLXmP8Y Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispina Posted February 2, 2022 Report Share Posted February 2, 2022 I watched all four videos - enjoyed them very much. Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted February 2, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2022 (edited) Prego Crispina. I think I will be adding mainly to the alternate list version of this at https://www.unrv.com/forum/topic/19385-list-version-favorite-archeo-tour-videos/ because it is in a more easy to find and maybe more proper location in the forum. Also it is easier to choose from or tell what is already there or what is missing. And easier to recover from vanishing videos; some content creators don't like being embedded and can withdraw permission for that. Time will tell. It lacks some of the secondary info like those related 3 videos, but if you check before youtube advances to another video it should display related videos including new ones or popular ones. It annoys me when youtube or any videos autostart despite having autoplay turned off in youtube or in my browser. For the record, here is a nerdy way to tame Firefox into never being tricked into autoplay: You can look at these prefs on the the about:config page to see what settings work for you to block autoplay. media.autoplay.default = 5 [0:allow;1:blockAudible;2:Prompt;5:blockAll] media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 2 media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages = false media.autoplay.block-event.enabled = true You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue. (It should add that you can bring up these options by searching "autoplay" within about:config and usually click them to toggle settings) Edited February 2, 2022 by caesar novus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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