Posted on 09/30/2008 4:30:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Remains of rotten fish entrails have helped establish the precise dating of Pompeii's destruction, according to Italian researchers who have analyzed the town's last batch of garum, a pungent, fish-based seasoning. Frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption that covered Pompeii and nearby towns nearly 2,000 years ago with nine to 20 feet of hot ash and pumice, the desiccated remains were found at the bottom of seven jars. The find revealed that the last Pompeian garum was made entirely with bogues (known as boops boops), a Mediterranean fish species that abounded in the area in the summer months of July and early August. "Analysis of their contents basically confirmed that Mount Vesuvius most likely erupted on 24 August 79 A.D., as reported by the Roman historian Pliny the Younger in his account on the eruption," Annamaria Ciarallo, director of Pompeii's Applied Research Laboratory told Discovery News. The vessels were unearthed several years ago in the house of Aulus Umbricius Scaurus, Pompeii's most famous garum producer.
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I’ve got an old bottle of fish sauce that smells like it came from the Pompeii eruption.
I don’t know if records have been found of anyone other than Pliny the Younger recording this date. At any rate, how many people don’t trust scientists and historians? Also, I believe he may have been 18 or 19 at the time. Who trusts young people? So far as the coin was concerned, people later dug down into various of the ruins looking for treasure and family possessions. Not that hard to drop a coin in the process. I clicked the links for the story and for Comment #1, and don’t know what picture is being referred to.
Thanks glee’.
Lol, Call the Romans a pack of liars?
Pompeii: Vesuvius eruption may have been later than thought
BBC | October 16, 2018 | unattributed
Posted on 10/17/2018 3:27:06 AM by SunkenCiv
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