Such a beautiful disaster this place is. 
Mount Vesuvius swept out an entire town in 79 A.D. This place in ancient!! Once again, I was amazed by the work of people so far back in our lifetime. It was incredible to see what was left standing. We were able to see old houses, frescos, buildings for shops, brothels, and artifacts. The artifacts, including recovered moldings of people, were unreal. The shells of the humans would send shivers down anyone's spine. 
This recovered person shows fear as the ash was coming down to take their life. You can almost imagine what was going through this persons mind. We also saw a baby and a dog...
Observing this town, I could see how these people were just like us. They slept, ate, shopped, and had extracurricular activities just like the people of our time has. We may advance in technologies, medicine, and etc, but humans have certain instincts they obviously haven't changed. Life is truly amazing.
Ciao Pompeii
Thanks for your posting, Sky. It seems you are really taken by what you saw today. Your entry is more pensive. I cannot imagine what the Pompeians felt that day. Nowhere to run. This disaster gave us such historical artifacts, though. It is amazing to be able to garner so much information by what was left behind. I wonder what archeologists will find abattoir lives!
ReplyDelete