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1 posted on 05/26/2015 7:03:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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I visited Pompeii in 1968. They said that only about 10% had been excavated. What I saw was amazing, especially the casts of people fleeing the pyroclastic flow. Back then there were no signs saying “don’t touch” and no roped off areas. We just wandered around until incredibly hot sun forced us to leave. One in our party suffered classic sun stroke.


2 posted on 05/26/2015 7:31:27 AM PDT by Mercat (Release the HildeKraken)
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


3 posted on 05/26/2015 7:32:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Journalism 101:

“The 12-metre high pyramid allows visitors to walk along a track before entering it.”

What?/? By way of comparison, does the Washington Monument allow visitors to walk along a sidewalk before entering it? Mighty generous of them both.

I’m interested in what the track consists of, too. Surely not a railroad . . . surely not a 100-metre race track . . .

“The photos are partly broken down into fragments and then reassembled in pastiches and are exhibited along the walls illuminated by diffused light.”

Way to make obscure what the heck one sees.


4 posted on 05/26/2015 8:05:12 AM PDT by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: BenLurkin

Why place it in the middle of the arena? The arena seems to be in pretty good shape, might they not want to use it sometime?


10 posted on 05/26/2015 6:30:01 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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