Comment on August 24th 79 AD is the believed date that the City of Pompeii was covered in meters of volcanic ash, after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Thanks to Giuseppe Fiorelli we can see some of their last…

wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

What’s on display is, thankfully, a set of replicas, but if you want some additional Vesuvius nightmare fuel, look up the boathouses of Herculaneum. The recent Tom Hiddleston “documentary” was an odd thing, but it did do a pretty good job dramatizing and humanizing that day. I reckon it will become a staple of high school and freshman college classes that touch on Ancient Rome.

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