Ancient Roman Life Preserved at Pompeii

[kiamoy]

On a fateful summer morning in A.D. 79 Mount Vesuvius buried the vibrant Roman city of Pompeiiâ€"and many of its citizensâ€"beneath tons of volcanic ash and debris.

"Darkness fell, not the dark of a moonless or cloudy night, but as if the lamp had been put out in a dark room," wrote Pliny the Younger, who witnessed the cataclysm from across the Bay of Naples.

The darkness Pliny described drew the final curtain on an era in Pompeii. But the disaster also preserved a slice of Roman life. The buildings, art, artifacts, and bodies forever frozen offer a unique window on the ancient world.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/ancient/pompeii.html

[Lorenzo]

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.

[Lorenzo]

This was once a Roman citizen, and a devotee of the godess Diana.

This individual, as we can see, died in prayer. His/her preserved body was found at the remains of the Roman Temple to the Goddess Diana.



What was this individual thinking during the time of eruption? Surely, probably praying and imploring the gods for a miracle.

[Lorenzo]

Remains of Roman citizens, young, old, men, women. Their bodies found within the grounds of the Roman Temple to the goddess Diana.

[Mulligan]

I can't equate your age with your postings... just kidding.

Good read Bay Lorenzo.

Fore !

[Lorenzo]

Bedo,

Age is nothing but a number

ha,