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Meet the Experts | Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston | National Geographic
Meet the Experts | Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston | National Geographic
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Pompeii is a story of survival.
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The Romans had a really active approach to religion.
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Mhmm.
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They believed you could appeal to the gods directly.
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‘Fighting’ can also mean you’re fighting against the envionment
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to get to something you need.
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Or you want to, maybe, rescue a loved one.
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The eruption released more thermal energy than atomic bombs
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dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, combined.
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Herculaneum.
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All those people are under threat.
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All those people need to be rescued.
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I live, breathe, excavate, teach, in Rome.
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So, I’m pleased to be able to spend a lot of time in Herculaneum -
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one of the best sites that you can explore
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to understand the daily life of the ancient Romans.
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You said this place was a beach resort, so where’s the sea?
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Well, we are on the beach, and the sea was right there.
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That’s the power of the eruption.
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It’s going to radically change the whole geography of the entire Bay of Naples.
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People don’t know as much about Herculaneum...
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but they should!
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Because the preservation in Herculaneum, the neighboring city,
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has to do with the nature of the pyroclastic material that covered the site.
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It was more like a hot mud, so the material ends up being better-preserved.
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Unlike Pompeii, when they excavate Herculaneum,
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they basically don’t find any bodies.
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So, something did happen on this beach, right?
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There does seem to have been some sort of an attempt of an evacuation.
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My job is working as a survival psychologist,
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looking at how people respond to disasters.
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So in disaster psychology, what I’m looking at is people under extreme stress.
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Like a natural disaster.
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From all of your studies, can we apply these predictions to people from the past,
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do you think?
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Yeah, I don’t think people have changed very much in 2,000 years.
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We know that there are about ten percent of people
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who will manage to be cool, calm, and collected
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and respond effectively.
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We have a Praetorian.
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He is exactly the sort of person you’d need in a situation like this.
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Into the boat sheds!
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Now!
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And then, we have the eighty percent of people.
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They don’t really know how to respond.
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They’re waiting for direction and other people to basically help rescue them.
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Julia Felix.
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She’s the leader of her household.
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Okay, we need to focus.
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Get them inside! Now!
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Even in the heat of an emergency,
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people are capable of engaging in what we call, “Pro-Social Behavior.”
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So, we see people helping and supporting each other.
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Rescuing each other.
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Friends. Family.
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Or even total strangers.
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They rescue one another.
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Yes.
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I’m interested in how we use
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the rocks and fossils we find
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beneath our feet to reconstruct Earth history.
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Four point five billion years of it.
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On that day two thousand years ago,
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magma, molten rock, is rising up.
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Pushing against the rocks and fracturing them, until...
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Explosion!
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Well, eruption, actually.
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Pompeii is incredibly unique,
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just as a place of record of the way in which these geohazards,
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volcanic eruptions, can immediately, and in a very devastating way, affect human life.
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Six hundred million tons of superheated rock and magma
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was blown twenty miles up into the atmosphere.
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And within minutes,
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that rock and magma would start to rain down on Pompeii.
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And I think that you could really argue that the story of Pompeii is
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the birth of volcanology, in a way.
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And you can argue that it’s, therefore, one of the founding principles of geology, itself.
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The eruption column now becomes so vast, so dense,
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that it was actually stopping sunlight reaching
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Herculaneum...
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Pompeii...
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well, the whole Bay of Naples.
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Soon, it will be completely buried.
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But there’s still time, right?
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There’s still some chance that they can evacuate?
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It’s a slim chance.
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I’ve worked on basically three main topics throughout my career.
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Household archaeology,
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interactions between Egypt and the Greco-Roman world,
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and the archaeology of religion and ritual.
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Romans had many, many gods.
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- Yeah. - Including a lot that originally came from other cultures,
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- like Egypt, in this case. - Yeah.
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There is so much Egyptian influence at Pompeii.
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Objects imported from Egypt. Practices imported from Egypt.
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Local products that are meant to look Egyptian.
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The most dramatic example is the temples of Isis, where
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an Egyptian god was being worshipped in this community.
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Isis was a cosmic creator.
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She could embody all of the gods in one.
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She’s certainly a god you might want to have on your side during a natural disaster.
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There was someone praying here during the eruption.
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Mother.
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Protector.
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Come to me, Isis.
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I hope that the viewers are curious
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to learn more about this incredible lost culture.
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I think the experience of being in Pompeii
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can produce a real empathy for the people who lived there.
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These people felt all of the things that you would feel if you were in the same situation.
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It isn't just about the ruins.
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It's about human stories and those emotions that translate from 79 AD to the present day.
