So here we find ourselves in one of the other restaurants that have been excavated in this town block. As customers would come up through this long passage way, they'd reach the end of the property, where they would find, out on the left hand side he...
If people don't notice the altered shape of the mountain, or the drop in sea level,they must feel the ground beneath their feet begin to shift. But according to contemporary Roman accounts, Pompeii is used to earth tremors. It's part of everyday life...
And what sort of building were they in. Yea, we found them near a tower and they were escaping during the eruption. To the trained eye of a forensic anthropologist, the state of the bones, even 2000 years after death, is very telling. On skeleton No....
In the main part of the building, it's striking how open and visible everything is. If you want to find where the slaves are, where the people who do the real work, you've got to go around the corner to the invisible beats and know no eye wants to co...
Archaeologists have found cavities that they can fill with plaster to create molds. They are able to see, hundreds of years later, exactly how the dead lay when the volcano struck. They have also found bones. So far, the remains of 1100 people have b...
Whatever it was, it was clearly something of value. At the entrance, slots in the stone indicate the doors could be barred. There are also two guard houses inside. This was one of the most secured buildings in the city. It appears that the merchandis...
So this is how it begins. The 17 years between the earthquake and the final eruption are, on a geological scale, just a blink of an eye. But in the world in which the Romans live, a natural disaster is the action of an angry god. So instead of heedin...
The melting rock is forcing its way out. In fact, its effects are felt years before. The city lives through something which today would be seen as a terrible warning. This is evidence of a major disaster, an earthquake that hit the city in 62 A. D.,...
