I've read interesting yet superfluous journals on this said topic. It amazes me at the level of preservation of Pompei and the remains. During the time of Pompei's obliteration, hundreds of Romans scrambled into the Temple of Diana, a Roman goddess, offering praises and burning incense to the deity for a miracle.
Their prayer was unanswered, as the entire Roman City of Pompei, and some 4,000 Roman soldiers as well as with the urban populace was covered by rock, and ash. To be preserved for 2000 years.
They were silenced some 2 millenia ago, yet their preservation allowed them to outlast the very empire they lived in. Though they died and perished in ash and in agonizing death, they outlived the Golden Rule of the Caesarian Emperors, the Roman god-protector of the Empire.
In death, they were immortalized in clay, in rock, in ash, and marble.
The very flesh and bones withered away, but the form of their body perfectly preserved for all eternity. For mankind to look and touch. History and the Present connect.
The irony of the situation. They died, yet immortalized in death.
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