Roman Colony of Africa in Hammamet in Tunisia [51:13]

YouTube ^ | October 25, 2024 | Histoire & Civilisations

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Bringing back to life a whole section of the lives of the inhabitants of this African province at the time when it was a Roman colony, such is the mission that the scientists who have been working on the Pupput necropolis since 1996 have set themselves. It was the construction of a tourist complex that brought to light this 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery, the largest ever discovered intact in Africa. Between the excavations of the graves and the visit of the neighboring Roman sites, Serge Viallet introduces us to the funeral rites of a population of modest means. The objects that accompany the tombs reveal the gestures and habits of this population; from this place of death emerges the knowledge of the living.

Roman Colony of Africa in Hammamet in Tunisia | 51:13
Histoire & Civilisations | 211K subscribers | 106,658 views | October 25, 2024

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The YT transcript was, as one might expect, in French. If there's a huge demand for it, I'll post it. :^)

Instead, here's something from a different part of the empire:

A hand and elbow fragments belonging to a colossal statue from the Roman period were found near the temple.The statue is estimated to have stood over 13 meters high, making it one of the largest statues from Greco-Roman times. Due to the massiveness of the statue, the temple was attributed to Hercules who was renowned for his physical strength.

Hand of colossal statue | universes.art

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That’s a big skull....................

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for posting. The YT video is very interesting. I’m always amazed at the incredible patience and painstaking work of the field archeologists. I can’t imagine the later lab work required to turn all that collected material back into objects.

One of your videos a while back (I think it was yours) showed the “mountain” in Rome comprised of smashed amphorae. It was cheaper to make new amphorae in Iberia to transport olive oil and grain to Rome than to transport empty amphorae back to the agricultural regions for re-use.

The archeologists in this video think the amphorae may be been used to bury small children or infants. It may have been a cheap way for the lower classes to get a coffin for their children.

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The used jugs were so common and cheap to make that it probably didn’t make sense to ship something back, particularly from Rome, which imported from all over and exported much less. Also, the olive oil jugs would get rancid inside.

https://freerepublic.com/tag/montetestaccio/index

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...or a small hand.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6BeTYxtTf0

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:^)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZC3NUdjtug

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according to Hollywood, Hannibal was black. So was Cleopatra.

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Despite their pretenses, Hollywood doesn’t make documentaries.