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I'm Garrett Ryan. I earned a PhD in Greek and Roman history, and taught at a few universities before leaving academia. These days, I spend most of my time writing, traveling, and - of course - making videos about ancient history.
Every Friday (and sometimes also on Tuesday), I post a video about the Greeks or Romans. Some of my videos explore ancient buildings and cities. Others answer frequently-asked questions, tour famous museums, or delve into ancient mysteries. All my videos aim, in some small way, to bring the past to life.
If you enjoy this channel, you might be interested in my book "Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans."
Check out toldinstone.com for more interesting tidbits about the classical world, and feel free to email questions or comments to toldinstone@gmail.com.
Thanks for watching!
Every Friday (and sometimes also on Tuesday), I post a video about the Greeks or Romans. Some of my videos explore ancient buildings and cities. Others answer frequently-asked questions, tour famous museums, or delve into ancient mysteries. All my videos aim, in some small way, to bring the past to life.
If you enjoy this channel, you might be interested in my book "Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans."
Check out toldinstone.com for more interesting tidbits about the classical world, and feel free to email questions or comments to toldinstone@gmail.com.
Thanks for watching!
The Colosseum After the Fall of Rome
After Rome fell, the Colosseum was a palace, a castle, a bullring, a den of thieves, and a bustling neighborhood - sometimes at once.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:22 The last games
2:15 From arena to neighborhood
3:52 Stone robbing
4:35 From neighborhood to palace
5:19 Bullring and den of thieves
5:49 Peregrine Pendants
6:55 Renaissance pillaging
7:47 Early preservation efforts
8:46 Christian shrine
9:24 Tourist attraction
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My new book, "Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines" is now available! Check it out here: www.amazon.com/Insane-Emperors-Sunken-Earthquake-Machines/dp/1633888932
Check out my other UA-cam channels, @toldinstonefootnotes and @scenicroutestothepast
Please consider supporting toldinstone on Patreon:
www.patreon.com/toldinstone
If you're so inclined, you can follow me elsewhere on the web:
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/profiles/toldinstone
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www.goodreads.com/author/show/20993845.Garrett_Ryan
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:22 The last games
2:15 From arena to neighborhood
3:52 Stone robbing
4:35 From neighborhood to palace
5:19 Bullring and den of thieves
5:49 Peregrine Pendants
6:55 Renaissance pillaging
7:47 Early preservation efforts
8:46 Christian shrine
9:24 Tourist attraction
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Museums are about to change forever
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When New York looked like Ancient Rome
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Why the Roman Empire Lasted 1,500 Years
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Rome's Biggest Construction Projects
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Better than nothing.
Ah yes the ancient buildings of Theseus 😢😅
Evidence that the human need for escapism from their daily reality via the use of drugs, alcohol has always existed.
😹😹😹 Cheap Chinese replicas. You can't make this 💩 up! 😹😹😹
I would not want to go back but it was a amazing country so interesting .
I think the way Japan handles it is quite respectful. Over the last thousand years, there have been cases where iconic shrines have been lost for various reasons and they have been rebuilt faithfully in their original image. The building continues - it doesn't have to be the exact same literal building as the ancient one, as long as it is historically accurate, I think it can be considered a continuation of the same building. Kinkakuji was rebuilt in the 50s, but seems much older culturally. Toki no Kane in Kawagoe was rebuilt in the 1800s, and so on.
"Return Dave's Braveheart DVD" 😂
They aren’t “fake”, they are just restored/reconstructed. Yet another clickbait video yt is known for
I don't think "Fake" is the right word here - as Jason Table said below, "Authentic, just not original." I think most, or at least many, visitors to these ancient sites are aware that what they are seeing is not necessarily the untouched and unaltered remains of monuments and structures from over 2,000 years ago. As far as I know these ancient ruins are not being presented as being totally original either.
and this is called the ship of Thesseus paradox
Stonehenge in the UK was "remodelled" sometime in the 1930's prior to this it was just a pile of big rocks.
I saw this in Hampi in South India, which is a very famous 'ancient 'site. Most of the minuments and temples are of recent construction. As a matter of fact, in a roped off area, 'ancient ' .sculptures were being carved on site, which I'm sure will be finished with a weathered look, as were most of the other structures there. Now, that does not mean that there is nothing ancient and mysterious there: I saw many megalithic ruins surrounding these temples that tourists visit but most will not notice the megalithic hillsides that are clearly constructed, not natural. I believe the real purpose of faking these ancient sites is to hide the actual ruins that decimate the academic narrative of history we have been given. Such sites and ruins have a perfect history about their origin and timelines; the megalithic ones on the other hand, their history is a mystery that academics dare not even address for the most part.
Excellent video on something is talked about far to little.
WOW!! Even though most of this was stuff I already knew, most people in California where I live don't know that this is done. I have never left my state, and when I tell someone that; he will usually start talking about someplace that he has visited. And when that place is an ancient landmark afore mentioned tourist will say something like: "...has stood all for millenia!" or "....where(insert any historical figure) did(any old-timey thing)..." hearing these ignorant but all to common statements makes me think that people would take preservation more seriously if they weren't deceived, but I am probably wrong; the travelers I meet seem to want to be deceived
"hey Paul, do you know where the concrete guy is? "he died." "shit." "don't you know how to make it?" "no. I thought you did"
There's nothing less impressive than a pile of rubble.
_shows the Erechtheum_ *Bawww its all fake guys* Get this guy a yakuza shower
I love the people at the time’s knowledge of things that had happened previously. Not covered enough I think
Based nationalists building monuments
I think the point it to make history accessible for the 99% of humanity that will never be able to visit these places in person.
Ah! Forgot to ask when I watched this vid, 2 weeks ago or so: The Roman wall at Cardiff's Castle... real, reconstruction, restoration? Thanks for the amazing work and sorry for my quick, 15 y/o-alike typing style, am in a hurry and didn't want to allow the doubt to fester any longer - haha! Cheers.
Great Balls of Fire 😮
Yes we live in a world of lies and ALL history we are told at school and on TV is utter bullsh*t.
No excuse for touching Penn station I don't care what anyone has to say
pagan = name of spiritual / religious worship existed pre-christian.
Not me watching this video with so much attention and noting down things as If I am gonna go to ancient rome for next holidays
This is a very honest video. Tour books and tour guides have to tell the tourists that the monuments have been rebuilt, if they do not say that, this is a fraud. I think many ancient statues and coins were created in the colonial era.
Livin on reds vitamin C and cocaine truckin got my chips cashed in 💀
My gang of bandits just prowling the streets of Rome for some nummus aureus 😈
Is there no evidence of wooden partitioning? The instinct for privacy in a vulnerable situation is a very universal and human feeling. Where the Romans that dehumanized...surely?
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Museum are terribly boring (at least in Europe)
New York ❌ Novum Eboracum ✅
History is amazing.
Fake is not the right word
But the buildings aren't fake, I mean there real buildings with the real materials used to build them originally correct, there not plaster or paper matcha so they aren't fake, just sounds like the wrong way to describe them but thank you for your work on the content and your channel brother!
People's political views can significantly color their interpretation of reality through confirmation bias and selective exposure to information.
There is a big difference between a fake and a reconstruction. It concerns especially historical sciences and archaeology. However, not everyone understands what is what.
As dangerous as first row sumo wrestling or first row canadian hockey. But with swords and throwing spears.
Great video! I recently purchased a denarius minted during the reign of Maximinus Thrax, and wondered what the silver content might be.
Ruin waits for everything
In the end everything will be viped like never existed in the first place and not a single memory of it will remain.
I dont know, for some reason reconstructing buildings like this just feels wrong, I dont mind partially destroyed buildings or recently destroyed buildings being rebuild, but rebuilding whole ancient buildings just from foundations? We dont even know how they originally looked like
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ironic considering the content of the video as well. this website does not need more shitty AI videos.
Christian disaprovel and a Christian monk stopping the fight is very similar
This is false, the muslims arrived hundreds of years after it was already destroyed, this is not possible. look, either you want to show history or you want to show an agenda, choose one of them.
Fair hair was NOT rare in ancient Greece
Fake is an inappropriate title
I wish i never saw this 😢 haha... i mean it is a great video, but is very frustrating 😢😅
Was the Pantheon in Rome reconstructed too after World War 2??
You should mention Skopje, the capital of former yougoslavic republic of Macedonia, now North Macedonia, is full of fake. Parthenon was staying strong untill the Venetians bombed it in the siege of Athens in 1800's and then "lord" Elgin took a lot marbles in england, so untill these parts come back they should be replaced somehow, but anyway it's normal to remove ancient parts in museums and replace them. You have a lot to learn.. 😉🤣