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Pompeii and Herculaneum are on my bucket list. With this covid hoax though it's turned into a pipe dream apparently.
Amazing. Thanks!
Rich in knowledge, art, and even science, as well as decadence. Sound familiar?
So often rich societies achieve so much, and morally fail so much.
Pretty decent artwork.
I was lucky enough to be stationed at the NATO base in Naples Italy for four years in the 1980’s. I went to the Pompeii ruins many times and spent many hours watching the workers as they excavated the ruins. Awesome.
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Oh wow...
How diverse was the restoration team?
When I was walking around Pompeii. I saw some very lewd pictures on the walls. Clearly these ancient people were spreading some diseases.
The Italians need to protect these better. You can literally walk up to artwork and pick off flakes of plaster. Not to mention risk from mold, microorganisms, oxidation.
That said, my favorite sites are the mosaic floor and wall tiles. The color is fused to the tile for eternity and some sites have 35 million of them depicting ancient life.
We always use a wild boar to hunt deer.
Oh, that truly is stunning. Thanks for posting.
Hunting? Oh no did the Pompeii’s SNOWFLAKES protested the painting? 😃
Very nice. Amazing renderings for the period - I don’t think I’ve seen anything else from Pompeii to beat it.
One thing I have done is go virtual through Google earth. Not quite the same thing however, you do get a great sense of the ruins that way. I also ‘visited’ the pyramids that way. Extraordinary.
That’s amazing!
Now maybe they can get to work on the Pompeii porno...
If that were my house my wife would make my paint over it.