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08-01-2009, 03:08 AM
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Pompeii and Herculaneum: AD 79 Vesuvius Eruption Ruins and Plaster Casts
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in Campania, Italy. The precise date remains disputed. A traditional reading of manuscripts of Pliny the Younger's account places the eruption on August 24, while a charcoal inscription dated October 17 and other archaeological evidence led Pompeii officials to describe an eruption around October 24 as highly probable. The photographs show ruins and artifacts from both cities, including the Cave Canem dog mosaic from the House of the Tragic Poet, the Temple of Apollo, a painted room at Herculaneum, a peristyle garden and human plaster casts displayed among amphorae in Pompeii's Granary. They also include an old print of the cast of a chained dog found in 1874 at house VI.14.20. The casts were produced by pouring plaster into voids left in hardened ash after the victims' bodies decomposed.  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  · |
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08-01-2009, 03:16 AM
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 LURKER EXTRAORDINAIRE Poster Rank:1208 F Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 525 525Posts 1,255Thanked 35Quoted 0Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Re: Pompeii and Herculaneum: AD 79 Vesuvius Eruption Ruins and Plaster Casts
Awesome! I still have the National Geographic magazine that has a great feature on just the ash covered people. So tragic and amazing...
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08-01-2009, 06:44 AM
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 My Rank: STAFF SERGEANT Poster Rank:919 Male Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 807 807Posts 237Thanked 9Quoted 0Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Re: Pompeii and Herculaneum: AD 79 Vesuvius Eruption Ruins and Plaster Casts
I've been to Pompeii. Great place to visit, not the greatest ruins visually but does give you a sense of how the city was structured the City is largely complete in its layout which makes it very unique. Naples is an eye opener on the way in..driving in Southern Italy is crazy good..I'd go back tomorrow..Only saw a hand full of body casts I think most have them have been moved to Museums etc..
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08-01-2009, 04:24 PM
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Re: Pompeii and Herculaneum: AD 79 Vesuvius Eruption Ruins and Plaster Casts
Finally some mo' educational shiz up in dis bitch!
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08-01-2009, 04:37 PM
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 My Rank: MASTER SERGEANT Poster Rank:572 Male Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,718 1,718Posts 541Thanked 11Quoted 0Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Re: Pompeii and Herculaneum: AD 79 Vesuvius Eruption Ruins and Plaster Casts
I've been to pompeii too... It's great... to bad the real bodies aren't there anymore...
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