Frescoes and fast-food joints are just a few of the latest discoveries, but a small piece of graffiti is making scholars rethink the date of Pompeii's ruin.
In the 1870s, archaeologists made plaster casts of those who died when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, pouring the plaster into the voids left by decomposed bodies. The casts can still be viewed today and have proven especially useful to scientists ... pompeii archaeology death The Horrors ...
visual effects supervisor and President of Mr. X’s Gotham outpost in New York. “They found a hole and they filled out the holes with plaster and that’s how they got the shapes of the bodies. They are very haunting poses.”
Some men, after their games, were scraping their sweating bodies with the strigil. Others were splashing in the marble swimming tank. Here and there barbers were working over handsome gentlemen–smoothing their faces, perfuming their hair, polishing their nails. There was talk and laughter ...
This business is run on human urine. It’s so valuable that the Emperor is even put a tax on it. It’s a fullery. Clothes are brought here to be cleaned. They use urine because the acid gets rid of grease things. It’s the slaves, of course, who do the dirty work. The remains...
buildings in pompeii are even covered with ancient graffiti, either referring to contemporary political events or simply to the romantic entanglements of the inhabitants. the full horror of their way of death is apparent in plaster casts made from the shapes their bodies left in the volcanic ash...
(again not necessarily a crime). They'd haul the fellow to the patron's own private jail (yes, you could have a private jail) and keep him on ice until it came time to go to court. Naturally the other guy's clients wouldn't like this and some real set-to's happened from time ...
when you visit Pompeii, you are not only seeing ruins but are witnessing the final, intimate moments of many people’s lives. These are an amazing display of people in the positions they were in when they were preserved in ash on that fateful day including dogs, pregnant women, and childre...
24th August AD 79 Pompeii In less than twenty four hours the city of Pompeii and at least 5,000 of its people was wiped from the face of the earth. Their killer was the volcano Mountain Vesuvius. But how it destroyed them and why so many died, was for a long time a mystery. Today...
bodies, you see how people lived, you see how they died. The frescoes and wall paintings in Pompeii are amazing and a lot of our production design was based on exactly that. The frescoes and wall paintings you see in the movie are all based on reality. The tiles on the floor are all...