Posted on 03/01/2019 5:47:30 AM PST by BenLurkin
Public infrastructure projects that sprung up about this time, likely to accommodate the sudden influx of refugees, also provided clues about resettlement, Tuck said. That's because between 15,000 and 20,000 people lived in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the majority of them survived Vesuvius' catastrophic eruption.
One of the survivors, a man named Cornelius Fuscus later died in what the Romans called Asia (what is now Romania) on a military campaign. "They put up an inscription to him there," Tuck told Live Science. "They said he was from the colony of Pompeii, then he lived in Naples and then he joined the army."
In another case, the Sulpicius family from Pompeii resettled in Cumae, according to historical documents that detail their flight and other records, Tuck said. "Outside the walls of Pompeii, [archaeologists] discovered a strongbox (similar to a safe) full of their financial records," he said. "It was on the side of the road, covered by ash. So clearly, someone had taken this big strongbox when they fled, but then about a mile outside the city, dumped it."
The documents in this strongbox detailed several decades' worth of financial loans, debts and real estate holdings. It appears that the Sulpicius family members chose to resettle in Cumae because they had a business social network there, Tuck said.
During his research, Tuck also found resettlement evidence for quite a few women and freed slaves. Many refugees married each other, even after they relocated to new cities. One such woman, Vettia Sabina, was buried in a family tomb in Naples with the inscription "Have" adorning it. The word "have" is Oscan, a dialect that was spoken in Pompeii both before and after the Romans took over the city in 80 B.C.
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I’m surprised they didn’t all come here as refugees.
I suspect they went far away.
Oak Island. They went to Oak Island.
We toured Pompeii last summer. It’s a must see in Italy.
The water. Its on the shore. Also there was north and south. I don’t think anyone survived the town itself. Even if you found shelter and high ground, the gases would have gotten you. And you would have been surrounded by lava that takes weeks to cool.
Nagasaki?
No, first, they went to the Roanoke Colony. Survivors from the Lost Colony fled to Oak Island and buried themselves in the Money Pit ...
Wal-Mart..?
Anywhere they could!
Somebody call a democrat!!
I have met Steve Tuck. Very bright guy. No relation to Friar Tuck, as far as I know.
We visited Pompeii in the summer...one of those 95 degree,95% humidity days. I wish I had gone on a cloudy 70 degree day..I would have seen more and learned more. Someday I’ll go back...in October or April...to visit Pompeii and Herculaneum.
To anywhere that wasn’t Pompeii. Most likely somewhere without a volcano.
They moved to the Missouri Ozarks...
I don’t know but Trump put their children in camps
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