Pompeii: New find shows man crushed trying to flee eruption

https://www.yahoo.com/ ^ | 5/29/18

[BBell]

MILAN (AP) — Officials at the Pompeii archaeological site have announced a dramatic new discovery, the skeleton of a man crushed by an enormous stone while trying to flee the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D.

Pompeii officials on Tuesday released a photograph showing the skeleton protruding from beneath a large block of stone that may have been a door jamb that had been "violently thrown by the volcanic cloud."

[MrEdd]

If that were true, one would expect infamous sex tourism places like Olongapo and Saint Pierre to be ravaged by volcanoes.

[jaydubya2]

He probably forgot to pay homage to the household gods...

[BBell]

Thanks. I was always told that the lava turned the people to stone. It was plaster. I was taught that syphilis was introduced to Europe by Columbus's men. Guess not.

And people wonder why I'm so cynical. I always told my kids not to believe everything they are taught in school and their teachers are really not that smart.

[Flaming Conservative]

The people most likely believed the idols they worshipped would protect them.

[BBell]

From the link at post 7.

In reality, everyone had ample time to escape. Mount Vesuvius had slowly been building up steam and giving signals of an imminent eruption. Unfortunately, it was also the festival of Volcanalia – the god of volcanoes. The Pompeians took the smoking and spurting mountain as a good omen, instead of a warning. They celebrated instead of evacuating.

[BBell]

ping

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Posh. I saw JUNGLE JIM pick up a rock that size and throw it at some bad guys on TV!

[teeman8r]

exactly.

[teeman8r]

he didn’t see that coming...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Mt Pel’ee, Martinique comes to mind. The perversion of that town was well known before the explosion.

[treetopsandroofs]

Thanks. I was always told that the lava turned the people to stone.

Had thought the same until finding something like this about ten years ago.



Today, just realized that the "disintegrated" part was wrong.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Maybe fifty years ago in National Geographic it showed lots of uncovered bones at Pompeii. None of these had been filled with plaster.

[Gay State Conservative]

I've visited Pompeii once.It was in July...temp about 99...humidity about 99%...that visit having caused of the worst sunburn I've ever had.

I'd love to go back there on a cloudy,cool day in January...and I'd love to hit Herculaneum as well.

[Political Junkie Too]

Doesn’t Nature / God usually give some kind of warning of big events? Whether people want to heed that warning is their own choice

Let's ask the residents on the Big Island of Hawaii what they think.

-PJ

[treetopsandroofs]

May 1984

[DaxtonBrown]

That will buff right out.

[jmacusa]

Actually up until that time no one had ever seen a volcanic eruption. The Pompeians had no idea what was about to happen to them. Their tragedy was one of ignorance, not arrogant pride.

[Bob434]

i wonder how they died? Asphyxiation? Being crushed to death? Burned alive?

[353FMG]

Please Lord, let there be a red wave. Amen.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BBell. I've wondered sometimes if most fled to the waterside looking for an escape by sea, then died from the gases (that's what happened to Pliny the Elder), and perchance washed off by turbulent waters.