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Julian Dorey Podcast

#251 - Ancient Rome Expert on Lost History, Alexander the Great & Egyptian Pyramids | Toldinstone

Julian Dorey Podcast

Julian Dorey

Comedy

4.6649 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 188 minutes

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(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Garrett Ryan is an Ancient Rome and Greek Historian with the YouTube Channel @toldinstone . PATREON https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey  FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY INSTAGRAM (Podcast): https://www.instagram.com/juliandoreypodcast/   INSTAGRAM (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/   X: https://twitter.com/julianddorey  GUEST LINKS YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@toldinstone/videos WEBSITE: https://toldinstone.com/ LISTEN to Julian Dorey Podcast Spotify ▶ https://open.spotify.com/show/5skaSpDzq94Kh16so3c0uz   Apple ▶ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trendifier-with-julian-dorey/id1531416289  ****TIMESTAMPS**** 00:00 - Getting into Roman History & Under Reporting Roman Empire  05:48 - The Rise of Julius Caesar, Battle of Pharsalus 15:48 - Augustus ‘Pax Romana’ Era, How Roman Republic Was Set-Up 22:35 - Strange History of Carthage, Hannibal Crossing Alps with Elephants 31:30 - Size of Roman Empire, Animal Diversity Exploding in Roman Empire 39:23 - Roman Fake News (Nero Assassination), Roman Tax System 48:51 - Battles (Truces, Civil Wars), General Marcus Licinius Crassus 01:01:27 - History of Tattoos (Slaves), Greeks & Roman Empire Collision 01:12:41 - Alexander the Great Convinced he was Son of God 01:20:03 - Conspiracies Around Alexander the Great’s Death 01:26:33 - Persians Conquering Egypt, Egyptian New Kingdom & Pyramid Creation 01:33:21 - Rome’s Rise to Power, Russian Control During Reign 01:43:11 - Who was Marc Anthony, Augustus Legacy 01:48:51 - Pax Romana Term, Truth & Determining Facts from Old Historical 01:57:04 - Vesuvius Challenge Explained AI Being Used for Recovering/Understanding History 02:02:18 - Academia vs Non-Trained Historians w/ Discoveries 02:11:08 - What was the Senate in Rome 02:17:03 - Tiberius Rule of Rome, Who’s Next in Rule 02:26:47 - Romans Tolerate Religious Groups: Jews, Christians, etc. Caligula 02:36:39 - Biggest Cities in the World during Empire, Eating Pig P***Y 02:46:10 - Monte Testaccio, Life in Rome and Cultural Setting/Location 02:51:23 - Most Common Occupations in Ancient Rome, Poverty in Rome 02:57:09 - Entertainment in Rome, Roman Money System CREDITS: - Host & Producer: Julian D. Dorey - In-Studio Producer & Editor: Alessi Allaman - https://www.youtube.com/@alessiallaman Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 251 - Garrett Ryan Music by Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So when Vesuvius erupted, it buried Pompeii famously under about 20 feet of volcanic ash,

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and buried the neighboring city of Herculaneum beneath a pyroclastic flow.

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This white-hot cloud of various gases, suspended sediment, everything else, over a mud flow.

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And this encased Herculum in about 50 or 60 feet of rock-hard sediment.

0:20.0

And it flash burned and preserved organic material.

0:23.6

So we have doors, we have shingles, we have all kinds of things that have survived

0:26.6

nowhere else outside Egypt.

0:27.6

And we have an entire library that was preserved in this villa outside the town.

0:31.6

And there are hundreds of scrolls that were discovered, some of them partially unwrapped,

0:35.6

kind of inexpertly, over the past couple hundred years. There's now an initiative underway, the Vesuvius challenge, to use high-resolution

0:42.0

scans of these scrolls and AIs that can read the different resonances, the different signatures

0:47.9

inside these scrolls, to determine where there's ink, like the slight thicknesses in the papyrus itself,

0:55.0

and virtually unwrap and read them without having to actually, you know, hack away at the charcoal that is the scroll itself.

1:01.0

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1:09.0

It is a huge, huge help to the show. You can also follow me on Instagram and on X by using the links in my description.

1:15.0

Thank you.

1:17.0

Garrett, Sir Todenstone, as I should say, thank you so much for coming in from Chicago, brother.

1:21.8

I'm really, really excited to talk with you today.

1:24.2

Julian, thanks so much for inviting me. I'm thrilled to be here. Yeah, I don't know how you haven't been on a lot of podcasts.

1:29.3

Let's see if we can change that after today, and I'm sure we're going to have a lot of podcasts

1:33.3

in the future because your scope of expertise across ancient Rome and ancient Greece, there's

1:39.3

unlimited topics there.

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