Tunnel within ancient Pompeii’s drains system with archaeologist inside.Source: Archaeological Park of Pompeii
Posted on 08/29/2022 7:40:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A 2,300-year-old drainage system carved into bedrock beneath Pompeii will be used again to divert increasing rainwater into the sea.
Mount Vesuvius on the west coast of Italy is the only active volcano in continental Europe and its eruption in the year AD 79 buried the city of Pompeii under thousands of tons of hot ashes and rocks. Seconds after the eruption the southern Italian town was engulfed in a 500°C "pyroclastic heat surge," when fast-moving currents of hot gases and volcanic matter (tephra) killed every one of the approximately 30,000 inhabitants, instantly.
This 170-acre archaeological site is mostly preserved within ash, which also entombed human bodies, and now that they have decayed away, natural human molds are found by excavators who make plaster casts bringing back to life the sheer terror that spread crosses the faces of the people who suffered in the volcanic catastrophe.
The recommissioned 1,500ft (457m) network of ancient tunnels and drainage channels is accessed through two manholes leading beneath the Civil Forum, near the Centaur statue and it leads downhill underneath Via Marina to the Imperial Villa.
The Civic Forum of Pompeii was a great rectangular plaza measuring 125ft (38m) wide by 466ft (142m) in length. While it was originally built in the 3rd century BC by the Samnites, evidence gathered from inside the tunnels showed final enhancements were executed by Roman architects in the years preceding the devastating 79AD eruption of Vesuvius.
Since 2018 the drainage network has been carefully assessed by several teams of scientists to assess if it was still capable of diverting rainwater into the nearby sea, and the restoration project has now been approved.
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Tunnel within ancient Pompeii’s drains system with archaeologist inside.Source: Archaeological Park of Pompeii
Thanks to, you know who you are, this is a very nice new web source for GGG!
Our swamp will be drained for about that long.
“A 2,300-year-old drainage system carved into bedrock beneath Pompeii will be used again to divert increasing rainwater into the sea.”
I thought the rain stopped in Europe due to Global Warming.
I’d be surprised if that wasn’t the intended angle. The fact that the Romans needed such a system shows the inherent bogus nature of the global warming hoax.
As long as [long rant, redacted by the author], for starters.
I can only say:
PM me if you need a better plumber
Seriously 2022-79 = 1943 years
“I’d be surprised if that wasn’t the intended angle. The fact that the Romans needed such a system shows the inherent bogus nature of the global warming hoax.”
Interesting take!
How wonderful ...
Ive been to Pompeii a few times ...
Iirc, maybe half that number died...
But fantastic after 2 millenia, the infrastructure still works...
IIRC, it was Herculaneum that was hit by pyroclastic flow. It was Pompeii that was buried in volcanic ash.
Yup, the headline was intercoursed up.
I’m a little jealous!
Yup, correct!
Two-storey Buildings in Herculaneum
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/11748/two-storey-buildings-in-herculaneum/
Awesome.
They’re flush with discoveries. (tiny little rimshot)
...a much needed and much appreciated...
Now THAT’S dirty water!
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