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Pompeii Family's Final Hours Reconstructed
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| December 11, 2008
| Rossella Lorenzi
Posted on 12/15/2008 7:31:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: Charles Henrickson
Ooooo, good catch, Charles!!
Unfortunately, some editor will probably catch that ‘typo’ and “fix” it to say something like “...and one fetus in the last month of intrauterine gestation” or the like. :-(
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posted on
12/15/2008 8:36:37 AM PST
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
To: SunkenCiv
It’s my understanding that Herculaneum was buried under hot sliding mud and is therefore hard to excavate, unlike Pompeii, which was buried under pummace. It’s my understanding that much of Herculaneum has not been excavated.
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posted on
12/15/2008 8:45:50 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
("Your grandchildren will live under communism." -Nikita Krushchev)
To: Savage Beast
It was indeed -- buried by pyroclastic flow. But the main reason it hasn't been excavated is that so much of the town lies under the modern town (which was renamed I guess, in honor of the Roman-era town, after its discovery). In recent centuries quite a few tunnels were made to find and pull out statues and whatnot, and some of the diggers got sick (maybe some died, I can't remember offhand) from ancient trapped gases from the eruption, released from digging the rock. There's been some driving for a reopening of the tunnels (much of the "House of the Papyri" has been uncovered, and was used as the model for the
villa part of Getty Museum) and building a comprehensive map (the surviving maps weren't very well made or accurate).
Also, there's a (possibly unfounded) belief that the papyri library (most of it that survived "examination" and "unrolling" has been published over the past 150 years or so) found in the HottP was just one part of the entire collection, and that additional storeys of the house contain other libraries. THAT would be cool, particularly since the methods now in use would be able to read and recover ALL of the written contents. Time will tell.
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12/15/2008 8:58:44 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
To: SunkenCiv
I think it was Robert Harris who wrote the novel, Pompeii. I remember it as well researched, excellent story and prose. It seemed quite believable.
To: SunkenCiv
I just read a book called “The Lost Tomb” about these very things! Although I didn’t care for the anti-Catholic/religion aspect of the story, the stuff about Pompeii, Herculaneum and ancient Rome was fascinating.
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posted on
12/15/2008 9:57:22 AM PST
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
To: pillut48
Forgot to share this
site with lots of pics of Pompeii.
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posted on
12/15/2008 9:58:29 AM PST
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/15/2008 10:20:40 AM PST
by
Danette
("If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
To: SunkenCiv
I have been to Pompeii. It is worth the trip.
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12/15/2008 10:30:50 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(McCain had no honor when he failed to defend Sarah Palin, Leno was not enough)
To: pillut48
A traveling show on Pompeii was at the Houston Museum this summer and was great. The plaster casts were interesting and copies of the fresco art from the walls were cool, but the jewelry and artifacts (such as a surgeon’s set of scapels and other tools for operations) were just as fascinating.
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12/15/2008 12:04:49 PM PST
by
wildbill
To: beaversmom
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posted on
12/15/2008 2:22:44 PM PST
by
fanfan
(Update on Constitutional Crisis in Canada.....Click user name)
To: SunkenCiv
Has Bush been blamed for this yet?
To: U S Army EOD
Obviously he is at fault — he did a real “Katrina” job on those poor Pompeians.
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12/15/2008 3:50:25 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
The Cartridgeagenians placed explosives in the volcano, Bush knew about it.
To: U S Army EOD
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12/15/2008 7:15:03 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
House of Julius Polybius, Vestibule painted in First Style
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posted on
12/16/2008 6:28:23 AM PST
by
NYer
("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/16/2008 6:37:27 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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10/01/2015 2:55:08 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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