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Chapters:0:00 Introduction1:06 The Forum and Colosseum2:27 The Ara Pacis3:24 Early restorations4:37 Mondly5:47 Roman forts and baths6:42 Knossos7:23 The Stoa of Attalus8:59 The Acropolis10:05 When to restore?Why Most "Ancient" Buildings are Fakes | 11:18toldinstone | 494K subscribers | 122,499 views | April 12, 2024

Chapters:0:00 Formerly lost cities2:30 Ekster3:32 Suburbs of Pompeii5:01 Tripergole5:45 Helike and other drowned cities6:44 Tigranocerta7:12 Ptolemais Theron and Muziris7 Lost Cities (that could still be found) | 8:35toldinstone | 444K subscribers | 69,473 views | December 8, 2023

0:00 Reaching retirement0:38 Leaving the arena1:59 Infamia2:30 Exhibition fighters and referees3:32 Trainers4:16 Curiosity Stream5:29 Bodyguards6:07 Legionaries 6:47 Farmers and priests7:14 Political careers8:21 "Friends" of wealthy ladies9:07 Elusive antiheroesDid any Gladiator enter Roman Politics? | 10:27toldinstone | 438K subscribers | November 17, 2023

Following Marcus Aurelius on the day of his final triumph. A Day in Ancient Rome | 9:49toldinstone | 437K subscribers | November 10, 2023

Lets answer the old question many numismatists make: "For how long did ancient coins circulate?" Lets take a look at some examples of Roman coins and hoards and try to come up with an answer.How long Did Roman Coins Stay in Circulation? | 18:38Classical Numismatics | 17.2K subscribers | 51,039 views | September 9, 2023

Building the Walls of Constantinople | 11:35toldinstone | 421K subscribers | 79,760 views | September 15, 2023

This edition of the Toldinstone Q & A answers four more of your questions about the Greeks and Romans. If you have questions you'd like to ask, or want more detail about some aspect of my answers, please don't hesitate to let me know in the comments!Chapters:0:00 How much did the average Roman know about Parthia?3:31 What did the Romans know about the city of Babylon?5:33 What were the most stable periods in Roman history?9:24 Did the Romans have ethnic stereotypes?Did the Romans have Ethnic Stereotypes? | 12:58 | Toldinstone Footnotes | 17K subscribers | 57,872 views | June 9,...

The Worst Earthquakes in Ancient History | 9:50toldinstone | 336K subscribers | 16,861 views | March 3, 2023

What Happened to the Wealth of Crassus? | 0:31 / 11:20toldinstone | 336K subscribers | 31,781 views | February 24, 2023Chapters:0:00 The wealth of the Roman elite1:51 Investment strategies2:20 Passing wealth to the next generation3:23 Masterworks4:58 It's tough being rich6:21 Elite infertility7:50 Infant mortality8:57 The example of Crassus9:32 Long-lasting families

This video explores why the Romans invented astrology, and how they give it the basic form it still has today.Did the Romans think that the Planets were Gods?toldinstone | 333K subscribers | 27K views | 2 weeks ago

Soldiers served an average of 25 years in the imperial Roman army. In the face of relentless campaigning, harsh discipline, and brutal demographic realities, how likely were they to survive to retirement?Chapters:0:00 Introduction1:08 Terms of service1:33 Death in battle2:42 Wondrium3:55 Fatal discipline4:41 Disease in the ranks5:33 Sweet release5:59 The odds of survival7:53 Hadrian's WallHow Many Roman Soldiers Survived to Retirement? | toldinstone | 396,157 views | November 11, 2022

The coin at the centre of the story was among a small hoard discovered in 1713. It was thought to have been a genuine Roman coin until the mid-19th century... The final blow came in 1863 when Henry Cohen, the leading coin expert of the time at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, considered the problem for his great catalogue of Roman coins. He said that they were not only 'modern' fakes, but poorly made and "ridiculously imagined". Other specialists agreed and to this day Sponsian has been dismissed in scholarly catalogues...A chemical analysis also showed that the coins had been...

Spartan citizens lived in luxury. Spartan armies were not invincible. Spartan politics had quite a bit in common with Athenian democracy. Classical Sparta, in short, was very different from the austere hyper-militarized society of popular myth…Why the Sparta you know Never Existed | April 8, 2022 | toldinstone

Brescello, the ancient municipium of Brixellum, is a small town in northern Italy near Modena. Originally, it was a Gallic settlement on banks of the Po River that was romanized after the area was annexed by the Roman republic...It was in this city that in the year 1714 one of the most remarkable numismatic discoveries ever recorded took place. A peasant, while ploughing a field, accidentally found a vessel containing about 80,000 republican aurei, that is, approximately 650kg of pure gold!The treasure was composed entirely of only 32 varieties of types coined between the years 46 and 38 BC, so...

This video explores the famous Roman roads, and investigates why - after 2,000 years of wear and tear - they seem to be in better shape than most expressways in modern America. Chapters:0:00 Introduction0:59 The Roman road network2:23 Building the roads3:25 Traffic on the roads4:48 StartMail (paid ad)5:53 Cuts, bridges, and tunnels7:58 Longevity of the roads9:16 Comparing ancient and modern roads10:39 ConclusionWere Roman Roads more Durable than Modern Highways? | February 4, 2022 | toldinstone

A missing finger from a giant statue of the Roman emperor Constantine has been reunited with the hand it came from, roughly 550 years after being separated. The 38cm long index finger was recently sent to the Capitoline Museums in Rome by the Louvre Museum in Paris. This week the piece was finally being returned to its rightful position on the hand, which sits in the museum alongside the colossal bronze bust of Constantine.

For centuries, Bactria - a region shared by modern Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan - was part of the Hellenistic world. Conquered by Alexander the Great, Bactria became the heart of a powerful Greek kingdom. And even after the Greco-Bactrian kingdom was overrun by nomads, its cities continued to thrive. This video explores their fates.The Lost Greek Cities of Central Asia | September 3, 2021 | toldinstone

<p>The Roman Colosseum is one step closer to having a floor, which will let visitors see the ancient amphitheater from a gladiator's vantage point for the first time in two centuries.</p><p>Colosseum Gets A Good 2,000-Year Scouring The famed Italian landmark dates back to the Flavian dynasty of the first century, and was originally used to host spectacles like animal hunts and gladiatorial games. It's been without a complete floor since the nineteenth century, when archaeologists removed it to reveal the network of structures and tunnels underneath.</p>

'The Adventure of Nera at Samhain' from a Tenth Century Irish Manuscript.Ancient Irish Halloween Tale - 'Echtra Nera'Dr Raoul McLaughlin | October 30, 2022

This video explores the dog varieties of ancient Rome - which, as far as we can tell, had little to do with any modern breed.The Extinct Dog Breeds of Ancient Rome | June 24, 2022 | toldinstone