1 In AD 79, Pompeii was a large town in Italy, with a population of about 20,000. On the evening of August 24th, there was a very big volcanic eruption. The eruption destroyed the town.This is how Pompeii looks today. It's an open-air museum and it's very popular with tourists....
* There are 2 distinct theaters in Pompeii, Two theaters offered plays and musical entertainment for the amusement of the population. * The Large Theater in Pompeii was built in the usual Greek fashion which utilized the natural slopes of a hillside. Before Pompeii was destroyed the seats were...
Empire, it became part of each succeeding emperor's patrimonium. The highly productive agricultural land of Egypt yielded enormous revenues that were available to Augustus and his successors to pay for public works and military expeditions, as well as bread and circuses for the population of Rome...
Mount Vesuvius.The area had a large population which grew prosperous(繁荣的) from the region\s agricultural fertility(丰产).Many of Pompeii\s neighboring communities also suffered damage or destruction during the 79 AD eruption.The eruption occurred on August 24. A study of the eruption products...
Around noon on August 24, 79 ce, a huge eruption from Mount Vesuvius showered volcanic debris over the city of Pompeii, followed the next day by clouds of blisteringly hot gases. Buildings were destroyed, the population was crushed or asphyxiated, and the city was buried beneath a blanket ...
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.
It's easy to see why visiting Pompeii is one of thetop things to do in Italy. Only 16 years before its destruction, Pompeii was badly damaged by an earthquake from which its population of 20,000 had not yet finished rebuilding. At the first sign of the eruption, people began leaving, ...
It was decades before the area around Pompeii began to be resettled.Still things could have been worse. Although newspaper stories today sometimes blare out how "20,000 people died", that's probably an upper limit based on one estimate of the town's population. The trouble is no one ...
The city with a population of 2 thousand civilians was swallowed by lava erupting from the volcano. People living here were buried under 13 to 20 feet. But they did not know that this volcano would freeze them and turn them intostone. ...
amount of open land. The large insula across from the Amphitheatre was not the Foro Boario (Cattle Market), as had been long supposed, but a vineyard. Many vineyards, fruit trees, and gardens have been found, indicating less intensive land use and a smaller population than had been thought...