What Was Roman London Really Like?
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Professor Alice Roberts explores some of this year's most exciting archaeological finds from the east of Britain. Each discovery comes straight from the trenches/site, filmed by the archaeologists themselves. We unearth the biggest collection of Roman writing tablets in Britain, giving insight into what Roman London was really like. Off the coast of Kent, we dive into the English Channel to complete the biggest marine excavation since the Mary Rose - an 18th-century East India Company ship, packed with silver. Also in Kent, we're on the detective trail to find the very first evidence of Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain - an ancient fort scattered with human skulls and weapons.
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Really excellent, I drive a black cab so I see this place as my townâŠbut one thing, the vestigial alphabet writing tablet, not necessarily a child, could be a slave learning LatinâŠ
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Better than Khans London, that's for sure.
@gn0ldiYou skipped over why Boudicca waged war against the Romans! It's a sad story! Romans being Romans!
@nightlightabcdGraffiti and sundials were Roman introductions
@sdalby9127So many romans yet weâre all mostly Viking related lol
@Arriella52Not only do hobnails help to preserve the footwear, it also provides a sound on the road, especially when there were thousands wearing them. A terrifying sound for the Britons. As we are not any different from the people of those days, the local Britonic "kings" probably sold people to the Romans and made themselves even richer.
@tonybaker55I wonder if the elephants died off due to natural causes and climate change, or at the hands of humans?
@tonybaker55The Roman finds in London remind me of the Mary Rose level of preservation, and yet this was over a thousand years earlier. Truly amazing!
@tonybaker55It was probably better than it is today.
@IlikewetsoxI wish anglish people would learn to pronounce their own language. No Oo sounds. Comes out like Y. Just to start. Tayen??? It's touwn.
@brucematzen4678Beautiful fibula I wish ill could help you to find interesting thing
@yvondville4832I can't escape Alice. Geesh
@jamesbyrne9312They are using the calendar invented by Julius Caesar in 44 BCE. 1600 years later it became the Gregorian calendar with a few adjustments. Learning about the eternal Roman Empire surrounds us everywhere today. There's been no such Empire since the Roman Empire. Smaller empires have risen with none as great as the Romans.
@DennisCamblyI got to say the beginning when she walked into the screen I thought she looked like a Mummy!!!!!Lol
@terrysmiles8599The first excursion here was purely for propaganda. He came , he saw and went home essentially
@stephengent9974They bury this kind of knowledge for a reason. The Obscured Principles book by Dorian Caine doesnât just talk about truthâit bleeds with it. I couldnât sleep the night I finished it. Not because I was scared⊠but because I finally understood why weâre kept distracted.
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@AyushSahu-r6rFunny how the Neanderthal skull had better teeth than the archaeologist
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@citygirljodyPlease donât call them LondonersâŠthey were invaders! The only Britons in London at that time, would have been slaves. Clever as the Romans were, they didnât conquer all of The UK fortunately, and we should not forget that when the Romans sacked Jerusalem, they brought Hebrews (Jewish slaves) with them back to Europe, Rome and the UKâŠ.and like all EmpiresâŠit eventually falls.
@gillhall7590Museo a celo aperto pensate il valore di questi reperti inestimabile questa Ăš arte
@marcomayer3519Spettacolo
@marcomayer3519I love history but stopped watching these types of leftwing propaganda videos. They draw you in with interesting subjects but infiltrate it with woke ideology
@lmtt123Okay I thought those tablets were interesting until the guy says they are dated âJanuary 8, 57â because the Gregorian calendar was not even invented for hundreds of years later. There was not the common understanding that they were even living in year 57.
@codynicholas2275It's an interesting show but not what the title promises. I clicked expecting an in-depth examination of life in Roman London with reconstructions not a general look at archeology some of which focuses on time periods over a thousand years later.
@ranuelthebard3751The grandiose background music makes it difficult to enjoy this documentary.
@izabelabhering7041Title seems misleading. Stone age digs, underwater archeology of a Dutch ship that sank in the 18th Century, etc, have nothing to do with Roman London.
@TheByteknightDon't forget black people invented everything
@s.wvazim6517400,000 years ago the 'Climate in Britain was MUCH warmer than today'.
So we are not all going to die from a couple of degrees warmer than we are now!.
CLIMATE EMERGENCY SCAM!
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@joshhoffman1975I love how prehistoric archaeology is mostly guesswork.......
@stephenpodeschi6052Is anyone else bothered by that narrator who has a mouth full of food all the time?
@karmicpopcorn6440Its surprising at 46.00 they think the bronze foot was the foot of a piece of furniture. It obviously is not. It would not be strong enough but more importantly they never used human feet on furniture legs. They used Lion's paws etc. It would certainly have come off of a small votive statuette of a god which likely would have been placed in a portable altar. Where do they get their 'experts' from?
@xikimunkiThink of Latin.
The Language of the Romans.
We can live and learn from.
@robnewman6101The White Race is truly one to behold. All that the world holds dear, is thanks to the Aryans.
@Höppenheimer88My concern is that this is being presented almost as a movie with actors and director. It just said my mind doesnât seem authentic.
@stanmansâ€â€â€â€
@EnriqueDeQuesada101Now, now â stop allowing yourself to be gaslit. In reality, Alice Roberts is excavating archaeological discoveries from the Sub-Saharan Africans who laid the foundations for Britain. Educate yourselves â watch the BBC and read The Guardian.
@rummy999910:35.. January 57? AD / CE? How did the Romans express the date? Because they sure didnât write it 57 AD
@longcastle4863Still a fascinating area for those archaeological and anthropological types.
@BCBN_Brian850this is old seen it
@oldskool731I'm sick of hearing about the Romans. Apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
@AndrewStevenson118-1