5 skeletons found at Pompeii [too late to dial IX-I-I]

Redazione ANSA Rome ^ | 24 October 2018 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

The remains of five people, probably two women and three children, were found in a bedroom in Pompeii on Wednesday.

The group probably took refuge in the bedroom in a desperate attempt to escape a shower of volcanic rocks that had filled the house, Pompeii director Massimo Osanna told ANSA.

"It's a shocking discovery, but also very important for the history of studies," Osanna said.

The skeletons were found in a house where a charcoal inscription was recently found backing the theory that the Mount Vesuvius eruption that destroyed the ancient Roman city took place in October of 79 AD, not August.

New excavations have taken place at the site, in the Regio V of Pompeii.

[SunkenCiv]

Last year excavators found the remains of a pizza delivery guy, he totally missed the "XXX minutes or it's free" window.

[SunkenCiv]

more sidebars, these about the Villa of the Papyri:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/villaofthepapyri/index

and the other major cache, the Oxyrhynchus papyri:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/oxyrhynchus/index

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/oxyrhynchuspapyri/index

[Lee'sGhost]

CNN sucks!

[SunkenCiv]

Amazing stuff, memory... here's a pre-eruption view of Vesuvius, with the peak intact, and showing the real reason the area was considered paradisiacal -- the rich soil from ancient eruptions made agriculture and vinoculture that much easier. The eruption that buried Pompeii and the other towns on the Bay of Naples was 1939 years ago; about 1800 years before that, a prehistoric town near modern Nola was buried in the same way, even some skeletons have been preserved.

(OS) Digital reconstruction of a Fresco depicting Bacchus wearing a brunch of grapes and Mount Vesuvius at its original state, from the Lararium of the House of the Centenary, Pompeii. [5994 x 3767]

[laplata]

Thank you for that. I think some of the Emperors enjoyed Pompeii.

[Jamestown1630]

I wonder what the meaning is of the prominence of the snake motif..

[SunkenCiv]

It’s associated with followers of Bacchus, seen here in Catullus (and hat tip to some anonymous scribbler on Wikipedia), wasn’t gonna guess, but I had one that was not right at all:

http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/cat64.shtml

[SunkenCiv]

Most of the emperors were hard-working, and when they cut loose to enjoy themselves, boy, did they. :^)

[Jamestown1630]

Well, that's going to take some time! But you hooked me on 'churned azure billows with firm oar blades'

and Amphitrite, too:

[Beowulf9]

The only intact Vesuvius WE’LL ever see.

[Beowulf9]

A Roman walks into a bar, sticks two fingers up to the barman and says, “Five beers please.”

[SunkenCiv]

LOL! He learned his lesson when he tried to order a Dos Equis and was served 20 of 'em.

[SunkenCiv]

:^)