amazing facts about Pompeii
Emperor Titus ascended the throne in June 79 after the death of his father, the emperor Vespasian. He personally assisted refugees from Pompeii and visited the region in 79 and again in 80. He care for Pompeii citizens impressed the Romans, according to historians.
The holiday of Vulkanal (dedicated to the god Vulcan) was celebrated in the Roman Empire on August 23. The eruption began on 24 August. Someone didn’t pray well enough. It is possible that some residents of Pompeii stayed believing that it was actually a good sign from the gods.
The Romans did not have the word “volcano” in our modern understanding. The volcano was a god, and eruptions were too rare to get their own term.
No one even thought that Mount Vesuvius is an active stratovolcano. The last time before the destruction of Pompeii, it erupted 1800 years before. Then he incidentally destroyed several cities and villages of the Bronze Age. Since then, people have forgotten about the death of people and settled the territory again.
One of the important evidence of the presence of the Christian community was found in 1962 on the wall of one of the buildings, which became known as the Hotel of the Christians. It is difficult to say if the hotel really belonged to a Christian religious group, but the graffiti painted in coal on the outer wall of the building clearly belongs to Christians. It states: “Strange ideas have captured the mind” A “(the unspecified name of a person with the first letter A), who is now a prisoner of Christians.”
Pompeii was discovered only in 1748 during the reign of King Charles III. Then his workers were digging a canal to the Sarno River and accidentally stumbled upon a part of the wall.
During the excavations, gypsum was used to fill the voids between the ash layers, thanks to which it was possible to reconstruct the death poses of the victims of the eruption. In total, more than a thousand casts of the bodies were found in Pompeii, including situs slot bet 100 entire families, groups of friends and couples who died in the arms of each other.
The archaeological park of Pompeii covers an area of65 hectares. This park, which is 250 years old, is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is visited by 2.5 million tourists every year.
Vesuvius, whose age is estimated at 17,000 years, remains the only active volcano on the European continent. Scientists suggest that the entire volcano erupted about 100 times, but only a few eruptions in their scale surpassed the eruption of 79 years. The heat energy emitted by Vesuvius during the eruption was 100 thousand times more than the energy from the bomb dropped on Hiroshima!
The eruption lasted for several hours from 24 to 25 August and in two days covered the city of Pompeii and the adjacent cities and villas with geological sediments 6 meters or 20 feet deep.
The first frescoes in Pompeii, found by the architect Domenico Fontana, were buried soon after the discovery. The reason is simple. Erotic themes were not accepted by a society.
In 1819, King Francis I, together with his wife and daughter, visited an exhibition in Pompeii. There was a scandal. Again, erotic frescoes were deemed offensive and the king ordered to hide them in the Secret Office. Access to which was open exclusively to “persons of mature age and impeccable reputation.” In fact, even to the standards of our century, the acts of bestiality or pedophilia depicted in some frescoes are quite seditious.