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check gafsa roman bath its in my city and i go to it almost daily now !

All new to me. Fascinating.

I find this. Very interesting. The narrator's cadence. Is. However. Annoyingly. DistractIng.

Thank you. The Wall is more intricate than I had imagined. From Texas!

I went there on a school trip when i was a kid, it seems quite a lot has been excavated since, which is great to see.

60 generations Have used that pool 😯 WOW 🩷

Go to Budapest Hungary and find another operating Roman bath

One of my favorite mosaic motifs I saw when visiting Tunisia was Neptune with crab claws growing out of his bearded head which made him look like something out of the movie The Thing. The ruins at Sbeitla have a bunch of those baptismal baths in situ, each completely covered in mosaics.

With plans to visit the baths, how did you manage to forget your bathing suite?!?

I've lived in Italy. Though I've never been to Tunisia, I always make it a point to visit Roman ruins and museums in the countries I visit. To me, Leptis Magna, in Libya, is the best Roman city I've ever seen. It's better than Rome and Pompeii put together

Restore !!

The Hydra fountain is like no other piece of ancient sculpture I have ever seen. Remarkable

To be specific, Tomb of Atban has traces of Carthaginian, Greek, Phoenician, Egyptian and Persian styles.

2:10 have they found any evidence of a brothel near the children's graveyard?

the 1st tomb looks very old,worn down blocks....

Learn Latin.

EVERYTHING GREEK

Y’all can oo and awe but not have have their full story of free energy

Makes you wonder, if the men who took those rocks and turned them into blocks realized that those blocks would still be standing thousands of years later. Even better, move across the world to stand it back up.

Are any buildings ruins still standing in any way we can see how they uses to look 2000 years ago.

How are the domes supported? Are they free standing or supported by columns on the interior?

I find it frustrating when Westerners assume that every architectural accomplishment from the Roman era was exclusively a "Romans for Romans" feat, as this is far from the truth. North Africa, for example, was allied with Rome for centuries, and many of the cities that feature Roman-style architecture were actually built by local rulers. Take King Juba II of Numidia, for instance, who was instrumental in the construction of such cities. To illustrate the diverse makeup of the Roman Empire, consider that Septimius Severus, one of the Roman emperors mentioned in the video (at 5:07), was actually of Berber origin. This highlights how the Roman Empire was a melting pot of different nations and cultures. Therefore, it’s inaccurate to assume that every city featuring Roman-style architecture was built by Rome exclusively for Romans. This is akin to seeing a skyscraper or a McDonald's in Paris in 2024 and claiming it was built by Americans for Americans. To further elaborate, King Juba II, who reigned from 25 BC to 23 AD, was a Berber king educated in Rome. His reign saw the blending of Roman architectural styles with local traditions, resulting in unique urban landscapes. Similarly, Septimius Severus, who ruled as Emperor from 193 to 211 AD, hailed from Leptis Magna in modern-day Libya, a city that flourished under Roman influence yet retained its distinct North African identity. These examples underscore the cultural and architectural syncretism that characterized the Roman Empire, demonstrating that its accomplishments were often the result of collaboration and cultural exchange across its vast territories.

The Egyptians definitely regret giving this away tremendously

The "Africa" category is useless and arbitrary, just like "Asia", so I don't see the point of calling Numidan mausoleums the "2nd biggest tombs of Africa". Numidians have as much to do with West African cultures or Bantus as Armenians have with the Chinese.

Are the baths ever available to women and girls?

Amazing well preserved mosaics. And not visited by huge amount of tourists that surely helped to preserve this location

I've never seen these! They are stunning! Africa is the future of the past.

please show the interiors of these tombs.

You have a knack for concluding episodes with pithy, thought-provoking summaries. Excellent work.

Love the unintentional (I expect) ASMR of the crunchy footsteps around that one monument - really made me feel for a moment like I was there myself! Great video as usual!

Great video again and very interesting. Strangely and surprisingly, everything appears of the indo-European heritage.

The same awaits Naples, if the residents do not move.

swim it up next time dude

I don't recall Gibbon mentioning the Numidian tombs. They are certainly worth a look but I am concerned about the seeming lack of tourists and perhaps a consequent dearth of caffs nearby.

The marvelous Roman Bath, nostalgia for ancient times, even unbelievable it is functionable that you can have the same luxuries of Roman citizens today's.

DUDE. You go to Algéria in search of God´s most forsaken 2000 year old spa house and you didn´t go for a swim??

There is one I know in the south Nicomedia, in today's İzmit/Turkey, the place called "Yazlık Ilıcası" which I have only seen from photos and as far as I see, it is not exotic as Pamukkale or one in Algeria.

What is interested is that they copied the Etruscan burial style, which was also adopted by some early Roman imperial rulers.

Very interesting, thank you

Awesome looking i had no idea! Thank you for staying with traditional dating conventions!

Amazing 🇩🇿

Another well done presentation!

King Juba II, and his wife Cleopatra Selene, not only lived during the time of Augustus, they were brought up from young ages by the emporer and his sister, Octavia, in Rome. They were both children of conquered rulers, whose parents were, er, killed by Roman invaders! This period is fascinating, and several novels have been written about it, some pretty good, but the best author of fiction set in this period is Margaret George, imo. She wrote The Memoirs of Cleopatra, as well as two great novels about Nero.

Great filming, I really admire your documentation and how you approach covering these sites. What a great teacher!

It's very unfair to claim that any place was "robbed" before the archeologist arrived. They in-fact will rob a find just as any would, they will keep it within their organization with a conspiracy to profit from the keeping of these antiquities. Make absolutely no mistake, they all take what is not theirs, and they will subsequently profit from you being able to see said item at a later date. The worst part of acquisition by an archeologist is that they are fixed in their understanding of history and objects they don't understand will be hidden away and never to be seen again. This "robbing" us of our physical history and robbing us of the truthful details of our history, this is unacceptable. If they wish to keep these items for all to see then the museums should always be free to enter for all, as well, completely publicly owned. Absolutely no private or Govt. ownership would be rightly considered within the heritage of civilization.

Thank you for this wonderful tour. Apart from the Jugurtha war I don't know much about Numidia, much less their buildings. This was both impressive and beautiful.

The structure of the last tomb reminds me of the Alexandria Lighthouse. Since there are Egyptian influences I wonder if there is a connection?

ever think about getting a drone? that would make for some great footage

I think that the name "Tomb of the Christian Woman" comes from the fact that christians were called "Rums" in this region, which was used to designate the Byzantines, but obviously, the original meaning was "Roman".

The Royal tomb at 2:20 Other sites state this is the tomb of Cleopatra's daughter, as she was married off to a North African king by the Romans. ( Rumor is that decades ago...the dictator at that time, ordered the destruction of this Tomb......but as the workers prepared to destroy the tomb, a swarm of wasps attack them and drove them away.)