# toldinstone: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-10-28, toldinstone has 653,000 subscribers, 108,267,669 total views, and 254 videos. It ranks #116,034 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [toldinstone](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for toldinstone is “Diseases of the Roman Emperors”, a long-form video published Oct 23, 2026.
- These are toldinstone’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jan 24, 2025 and Oct 23, 2026 (48 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 113,128. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Three Unfinished Roman Megaprojects” (913,434 views, Sep 12, 2026). Least viewed: “The Road to Göbekli Tepe \| 1,000 Miles in Eastern Turkey” (37,862 views, Sep 21, 2025).
- Median length: 10:24 for 48 long-form videos.
- In this sample, toldinstone’s consecutive uploads were a median of 14 days apart (shortest gap 5 days, longest 26 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 28, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Diseases of the Roman Emperors](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/BDLC2xnwNZ8/) | 2026-10-23 | Long-form | 106,889 | 9:52 | - |
| [Luxury Brands of Ancient Rome](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/fdqxF75gWeE/) | 2026-10-10 | Long-form | 223,768 | 10:14 | 1.42x |
| [Did the Romans Know their Empire was Declining?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/c0dGdT1VCho/) | 2026-09-25 | Long-form | 510,134 | 10:16 | 3.5x |
| [Three Unfinished Roman Megaprojects](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/qJIDOq0ezTs/) | 2026-09-12 | Long-form | 913,434 | 12:21 | 6.9x |
| [The Ancient Person We Know Most About](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/O5jyzM9oG6E/) | 2026-08-28 | Long-form | 228,349 | 10:07 | 1.92x |
| [Istanbul's Hidden Byzantine Ruins](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/hp3rkKHWwEc/) | 2026-08-15 | Long-form | 119,734 | 9:35 | 1.01x |
| [The Most Controversial Ancient Philosophy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/XZ85zOf0EQU/) | 2026-08-04 | Long-form | 102,325 | 10:59 | 0.92x |
| [Why Wasn't Pompeii Rebuilt After the Eruption?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/6xu4ki6yTJQ/) | 2026-07-24 | Long-form | 144,948 | 17:30 | 1.31x |
| [The Roman Gold Mine that Ate Mountains](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/DosxcZTjFwE/) | 2026-07-10 | Long-form | 146,130 | 9:10 | 1.32x |
| [The Rise and Fall of Pergamon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/CiIDqSYB0_s/) | 2026-06-30 | Long-form | 94,740 | 11:26 | - |
| [Romans and the Ruins of Older Civilizations](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/tXEslIbMoCI/) | 2026-06-22 | Long-form | 270,501 | 8:00 | 2.68x |
| [Numantia: Ancient Rome's Vietnam](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/1AO8cx3AAg0/) | 2026-06-12 | Long-form | 97,570 | 10:04 | 1.08x |
| [How a Forged Roman Book Remade Christianity](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/0cbTUvIu298/) | 2026-05-29 | Long-form | 118,274 | 10:23 | 1.25x |
| [Historical Treasures that were Lost TWICE](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/lGrKgew07IE/) | 2026-05-15 | Long-form | 103,420 | 10:24 | 1.09x |
| [5 Incredible Roman Ruins (that can't be excavated)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/G3hb5cwDono/) | 2026-05-01 | Long-form | 361,177 | 11:49 | 3.82x |
| [Djemila: Rome's Most Beautiful City](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/ZXL5mObibdc/) | 2026-04-18 | Long-form | 90,859 | 8:38 | 2.03x |
| [Comparing US Presidents and Roman Emperors](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/RI6FpTWMds0/) | 2026-04-07 | Long-form | 54,534 | 9:37 | - |
| [Roman Graffiti in Ancient Egypt](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/LUJcyDbRYrs/) | 2026-03-20 | Long-form | 124,669 | 10:28 | 1.3x |
| [How Accurate is Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/76GCu5x74-I/) | 2026-03-06 | Long-form | 51,687 | 10:24 | - |
| [The Decline and Fall of Sparta](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/yvWpzEwdFEg/) | 2026-02-25 | Long-form | 98,278 | 11:03 | 2.02x |
| [Ancient Rome and the American Revolution](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/9urhV9lwZVQ/) | 2026-02-06 | Long-form | 65,299 | 8:27 | - |
| [Karnak: Ancient Egypt's Largest Temple](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/uJOFY_p0rIM/) | 2026-01-23 | Long-form | 70,590 | 9:32 | - |
| [The Persian View of the Greco-Persian Wars](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/PcEMgywyVtg/) | 2026-01-14 | Long-form | 181,859 | 11:19 | 1.82x |
| [Robbing the Tombs of the Pharaohs](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/ZozylDvOnVE/) | 2025-12-19 | Long-form | 99,976 | 10:37 | 1.42x |
| [Why Athenian Democracy Failed](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/YqYGvSckTnI/) | 2025-12-05 | Long-form | 113,796 | 9:34 | 1.11x |
| [Europe Before Latin](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/JLg7QxK-aoc/) | 2025-11-21 | Long-form | 93,647 | 8:45 | 1.27x |
| [The Lighthouse of Alexandria \| The Tallest Ancient Tower](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/4-eqMGKNS4E/) | 2025-11-07 | Long-form | 60,559 | 9:01 | - |
| [The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus \| Lost for 1,500 Years](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/9ZHFdn-dhXo/) | 2025-10-24 | Long-form | 130,880 | 12:22 | 1.14x |
| [The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus \| Reconstructing a Wonder](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/WOB0jORIltY/) | 2025-10-10 | Long-form | 83,464 | 10:54 | 1.12x |
| [How a Syrian Desert Town Rewrote Roman History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/yR5P_Fc0_Uc/) | 2025-09-26 | Long-form | 100,141 | 10:28 | 1.31x |
| [The Road to Göbekli Tepe \| 1,000 Miles in Eastern Turkey](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/jkTy0t1snZw/) | 2025-09-21 | Long-form | 37,862 | 24:00 | - |
| [Why the Romans Never Conquered Persia](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/yqEz7DodkwE/) | 2025-09-05 | Long-form | 112,459 | 10:58 | 0.98x |
| [The Destruction of Rome's Pagan Temples](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/TtBOCBI433w/) | 2025-08-22 | Long-form | 104,327 | 10:06 | 0.94x |
| [How Expensive was Purple in Ancient Rome?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/9FMoWxQWHUE/) | 2025-08-08 | Long-form | 116,636 | 9:13 | 0.97x |
| [Why Roman Cities were Abandoned in the Middle Ages](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/qqFCHxacUww/) | 2025-07-25 | Long-form | 865,317 | 9:30 | 6.04x |
| [How the Greeks built Temples](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/q6f9aCiQm-0/) | 2025-07-11 | Long-form | 208,468 | 11:50 | 1.77x |
| [Was there a Middle Class in Ancient Rome?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/MQxyMCm7_TU/) | 2025-07-01 | Long-form | 123,641 | 10:50 | 1.05x |
| [Why 60% of English words come from Latin](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/ztmndDy9-s4/) | 2025-06-06 | Long-form | 61,308 | 10:29 | - |
| [How "Roman" is Times New Roman?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/QEK-7txqu0o/) | 2025-05-24 | Long-form | 89,912 | 9:41 | - |
| [How to NOT elect a pope](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/seDM2XkVs2M/) | 2025-05-09 | Long-form | 104,846 | 8:00 | 0.64x |
| [How did the Egyptians forget Hieroglyphs?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/TsWsDwn7mlA/) | 2025-04-25 | Long-form | 758,605 | 10:54 | 4.23x |
| [Paying Taxes in Ancient Rome](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/2XKgWEwxHi4/) | 2025-04-11 | Long-form | 97,635 | 8:48 | - |
| [Could Potatoes have Saved the Roman Empire?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/LhDeGcRsBRw/) | 2025-04-01 | Long-form | 163,218 | 9:28 | 0.91x |
| [Why the Romans Stopped Reading Books](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/iLkdWhqbqgY/) | 2025-03-21 | Long-form | 220,336 | 10:26 | 1.15x |
| [Why Scotland and Sri Lanka use Roman Law](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/ZRn9JVS55c4/) | 2025-03-07 | Long-form | 111,431 | 11:36 | 0.63x |
| [The Last Castles on the Roman Frontier](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/hKYxV1w29qs/) | 2025-02-21 | Long-form | 165,251 | 10:37 | 0.93x |
| [The Welfare Program that Fed a Million Romans](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/CG6ZoMpgIqM/) | 2025-02-07 | Long-form | 193,880 | 11:10 | 1.15x |
| [Where Every Roman Emperor was Buried](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@toldinstone/videos/YLpJyWj7Fec/) | 2025-01-24 | Long-form | 336,016 | 13:53 | 2x |

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