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Photos of Rome almost 200 years ago! I advise you to double the playback speed and mute the distracting audio, instead reading it's youtube description page for info:

That dryout may explain why the only video for this place seems to be 2 to 8 years old. The interior of Turkey is not somewhere I would go lightly, as I already used up my 9 lives in fringes of Africa, Asia, and S. America. Transport tends to be by long busrides with language problems. Travelers gush about the friendly reception, but there are safety reasons for this (dated) chart showing dropoff of European tourists (leaving mostly Russians at the time): I yearn to visit various coastal spots like Ephesus, and had mainly thought about Pamukkale pools below for the interior. But Sankaya baths are a long way from there. I suppose you could combine the Baths with visit of the Cappadocia region which is an (inconvenient - see bottom) tourist magnet for reasons I don't really get.

I have done some climatic research myself comparing Sept to Oct in that region. Nowadays Oct can not only be off and on cold but especially rainy. I wonder what Romans wore in the rain. I was on the lookout for that tiny window after tourist hordes before weather turns bad. It seemed to be only about the first week of October when there was sort of an uncrowded Indian summer before off and on cold downpours. It was so pleasant, with casual nudity at our Capri hotel pool being a symptom of a carefree break. Fall seemed to have too brief and sharp shoulder season for visiting so I switched to the more gradual and consistant spring ramp up (even their May 1 labor day is manageable). But fall changes so quick that it may offer clues to decoding Pompeii. P.S. this site is improving in capability with less restrictions. Thanks to whoever is doing this.

Wow; but it's a shame they will rebury it rather than making it a feature of the hotel basement, maybe with partial reconstruction, like in some other displays nearby.

Just a reminder that slight glass asymmetries don't come from time and pressure, but are original. A glass museum expert told me that, and also why centuries old windows that are much thicker near the bottom were installed that way. BTW I am looking for a brief paragraph on why recreational divers in the med and red sea shouldn't disturb found ancient objects like amphora. I could write pages about how simply their position tells a story, but need it concentrated for those with short attention spans and skeptical but well meaning. I guess it is off Egypt where this activity is blatant, yet there are Roman activities to be discovered.

OK, for the last one I will embed a playlist I created for Club des Belugas. Since sometimes the list (now 7) loses it's identity in embed process, it can also be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK1qF4IwoDE&list=PLNFncZ83olhCS3Tp2w2kFH_G0TnxH4zQU&index=2 On a laptop, you can advance to the next song with capital N or to previous cap P. I forget how without keyboard.

The lesser followed channel of "Darius Arya Digs" seems to be getting a polish and rebrand (it used to tend toward somewhat dry scholarship): So that is a kind of a raw dirt version of his more accessible channel AncientRomeLive. These seem essential Roman channels to subscribe to as well as toldinstone, but it occurs to me that some may not have even a free youtube account for that. Blessed are they who can resist big tech, so I will list direct ways to check for their latest videos from time to time: https://www.youtube.com/@AncientRomeLive/videos https://www.youtube.com/@DariusArya/videos https://www.youtube.com/@toldinstone/videos I think I listed more in some earlier dead topic too, but it is important to be selective with one's limited viewing time. BTW I think getting a premium paid account is justified only for youtube because you skip both the ads and the unwanted content. The latter is true only if you regularly flag the crap they try to "recommend" to you as "not interested" (under 3 dot menu). Spend about 5% of you time doing that and you can maintain quality video recommendations such as Herculaneum water supply graffiti I ran across below . To bad big TV media has no "disinterest" flag for turning back their river of garbage.

That isn't a tour of the vast baths complex and museum, but rather a peek at an exhibit closing this month held in a previously inaccessible corner of baths. The items range from amazing to things that are just there because they are newly found. Arya has done several better videos of the actual complex, and I will repost one so good it was the only one I posted in both my playlists 50 Roman Ruins and 20 Ancient Rome Museums. I recently stopped posting Arya videos here since after posting countless I was afraid those that liked them probably already subscribed to his several channels. I have interacted with Arya both on twitter and youtube; such access seems strange after seeing him on so many TV documentaries. Those that followed someone on this forum who attended the Swedish Rome Institute may remember that his special tour of Diocletian bath inscriptions were cancelled due to sickness of his professor. That was a shame because this is the one museum where reading captions in depth are super rewarding, which I have done there up to a point.

The above post clearly seems like AI gibberish, playing games with an obsolete thread. What is the motivation of the poster for such a thing? Play with chatgp or whatever on your own, but don't waste others time with your obvious fakery. I suppose this was an experiment to see if you could rope in a gullible person, then later use developing skills to rope people into profitable frauds. Addendum: The only other post by this person long ago was also gibberish, and the moderator had to edit out some included link. I don't see a way to flag spammers here, altho maybe others know and can do it.

Looking at the results above so far, I can draw a couple premature conclusions. The leading category is "Daily life, culture and ethics" (should say Roman), which isn't that surprising due to (1) was once very popular with 11k posts and only surpassed by a couple others. More importantly (2) the posting frequency has dropped relatively low to around weekly, so there seems appetite for more if folks want to introduce more content. It might seem odd that that the quite active Roman archeology categories are still flagged for more content desired. Collectively they have roughly daily activity. In my case I wasn't so much voting for more activity, but distinguishing between non Roman archeology with no vote there. I would rather see 100 more Roman archeo posts than 1 more Etruscan or Minoan one for example. This isn't intolerance, but making judgement calls after endless hours of trying to sympathize with many enigmatic cultures in anthropology courses. Some of the categories are confusing, like does "General history beyond the Roman and ancient world" really want to exclude the rest of ancient world? There is no obvious other place for Greek history for example. I'm sure it doesn't but it may muddy up the voting as well as some apparent overlap. That and this topic itself really belongs in "for discussing the UNRV site" category, but that one has been locked to prevent new topics.

In what forum areas would you like to get involved with if someone would just initiate more content?

Oh no, Astrud Gilberto died a couple weeks ago. She made bossa nova accessible to the pop world, with her hit below being played nonstop 24/7 by a radio station that normally only played new unknown stuff for payola$. Also they all normally forbid songs over 3 minutes, which the original Portuguese version was. I found out another famous band always printed a fraudulent 2:57 on labels - street smarts that I lack. Note the slightly predatory expression of the (skilled) hornplayer towards her. Her web page used to criticize his advances, but it must have partly been to elevate her performance. Her recordings without him tend to be blandly sentimental rather than smoldering. She was unexpectedly pulled into this song as an amateur because her husband could just sing the Portuguese parts and thought it needed a few English lines. She felt Brazil mistreated her, so stayed in US for half a century.

That crossed my mind as well, and we used to have about a dozen experts onboard that might know. I'm more into architecture and sculpture than sociology, but am intrigued by applying the "natural rights" analysis to an essay from Vitruvius about pitfalls within slave holding families. He warns husbands about indiscretions with slaves; otherwise his wife's offspring from then on may fail paternity tests. With no test and similar looking slaves, the wife's rightful vengeance may never be provable. That reminds me of media claims of wide paternity fraud by modern wives, perhaps with lookalikes of their husband. health-street.net puts some flesh to superficially alarming 30% numbers: It's like the statistical claim that most US marriages fail. wf-lawyers.com explains that only most of serial marry-ers fail; some of them are in lumped in point 7 below and really should be broken out for even lower % for non serialists:

I love using the term incest as a metaphor, as in "your creative process is incestuous". Anyway, we lack a bit of context for the above, such as when was it translated. Natural rights may refer to natural law of marriage The Natural Law, the Marriage bond, and Divorce which for instance has been used to say divorce after children are grown can be rational regardless of what culture or laws ordain. Other natural rights have been proposed over the centuries, I guess from the tension and conscientious resolution of motives stemming from degrees of "otherness". A longer quote may give more certainty on use of terms like "they"; does "they" always equal husbands or perhaps philosophers? Anyway the second sentence seems to have antique structure. If "their husbands" equates to "they" then it could be simplified down to the wife's close relative defenders being so integrated into the husband's family that he can't escape punishment for his abuse. Older english can be baroque and affected so I am mostly guessing.

Next they should embrace rationality and nuke the kitty herds there, with their corrosive excretions and catchable diseases.

This must be the best white noise soundtrack, which even when played on a tiny device avoids the usual hiss and manages to mask lower frequency distractions. It's almost like floating down rapids on a river of heavy cream:

More for the Rome video than the unrelated song, this really takes you back. Wiki sez Roman Holiday is "considered one of the most romantic films in cinema history ... nominated for multiple accolades, including 8 Academy Awards, with Hepburn winning for Best Actress; Peck also scored a BAFTA nomination for Foreign Actor." The bearded Albert was "nominated for his first Oscar as Best Supporting Actor" and later became legendary on TV (Green Acres cult screwball sitcom). Actors of this period had interesting WW2 experiences, with Audrey Hepburn having fascist activist parents but almost starving in occupied Holland. Eddie Albert "toured Mexico as a clown and high-wire artist with the Escalante Brothers Circus, but secretly worked for U.S. Army intelligence, photographing German U-boats in Mexican harbors" then "was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat "V" for his actions during the invasion of Tarawa". The film has a nice spirit but it's royalty worship doesn't age very well, and your classics streaming dollars would be better spent towards "The Seven Hills of Rome."

I posted Arya's youtube on that 10 days ago. At this moment the media you posted has a protocol error. Several times you have reposted my items, but I don't think you are blocking me (even if I deserve it). https://www.unrv.com/forum/topic/19852-notable-videos-of-roman-misc/?tab=comments#comment-133116

more pitfalls...

Towards the end, there were joint Japanese/German efforts to share critical, blockaded materials like rubber. 90% of such Japanese cargo subs were sunk on the way to or returning from Germany. In around the middle of this video, there are graphic recordings of a submerged Japanese sub (also containing a few Germans) being hit by a torpedo and spewing bubbles and crunching for many minutes. It was in the Atlantic by the same type of torpedo plane the first prez Bush flew, this time at night from a junior size aircraft carrier. It is conventional to pity the noble enemy targeted by this nerdy bomber channel, but I am more in awe of the technical learning applied in a high risk altruistic effort by ex farm boys:

Another outstanding fall asleep album. It shares the advantage of my hurricane soundtrack pick, which grabs your attention rather than just lullaby's. Lullaby's let your mind continue to race, but a slightly annoying property here diverts focus and tires your mind. Meditation bells: