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Posted on 04/17/2005 1:36:52 PM PDT by blam
Published: 17th April 2005 11:48 BST+1
Pompei discovery for Swedish archeologists
(AFP) Swedish archeologists have discovered a Stone Age settlement covered in ash under the ruins of the ancient city of Pompei, indicating that the volcano Vesuvius engulfed the area in lava more than 3,500 years before the famous 79 AD eruption.
The archeologists recently found burnt wood and grains of corn in the earth under Pompei, Anne-Marie Leander Touati, a professor of archeology at Stockholm University who led the team, told AFP.
"Carbon dating shows that the finds are from prehistoric times, that is, from 3,500 years BC," Leander Touati said. It was until now believed that Pompei was first inhabited during the Bronze Age.
The group of archeologists - part of a larger international project - were mapping a Roman neighbourhood of Pompei when they made the discovery.
"It was a real fluke," Leander Touati said, explaining that the group was emptying a well to determine its use when it made the find.
"We realized that the well was a lot deeper than we thought, and we sent a guy down into the well. He moved some of the earth and suddenly he was in prehistoric times," she said.
The Stone Age remains were covered in a thick layer of ash. On top of that a a layer of ceramic shards was found, which according to Leander Touati could be from the Bronze Age. Additional geological layers lay on top of that, and on top of it all were the ruins of Pompei.
Pompei was covered in lava when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. The excellently preserved ruins have become one of the world's most visited archaeological sites.
Leander Touati said her group was now planning the next step.
"We're going down there again," she said.
LOL!!!
It still is.
The headline was... "This is a true story it just hasnt happened yet"
It happened three times before, the last time was some 600,000 years ago.
Pompei is one of the places I want to go before I die....
I just get chills when I see pictures of how everything was caught in time. Now there is an second settlement...WOW!
Be still my heart!
"Pompei is one of the places I want to go before I die...."
When you eventually get to Pompeii, be sure to schedule Herculaneum as well (the modern town of "Ercolano"). It's smaller but much better preserved. Most tourists seem to miss it, which is unfortunate.
I remember how excited I was the day I went to Pompeii, and I wasn't disappointed. Also, the best preserved sculpture from the classical world is to be seen at the museum in Naples.
well said!
In Search of the Real Troy
Saudi Aramco World | January/February 2005 Volume 56, Number 1 | Graham Chandler, Photographed by Ergun Cagata
Posted on 02/20/2005 2:33:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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Was There a Trojan War?
Archaeology | May/June 2004 | Manfred Korfmann
Posted on 07/29/2004 11:43:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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"I am series."
But was the eruption HUGH?
From what I've read, a pyroclastic blast is overdue.
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I went to both Pompeii and Herculaneum early in July this year. I was actually stunned by the size of Pompeii. When they say it was a city, they mean it was a CITY. I think I expected a few square blocks (like what you get with Herculaneum) but in actuality, it took us a long time to walk from the coliseum back to the entrance. You could spend a couple of days before seeing the whole place. We barely made a dent. The concrete casts of the victims are no longer there, except for two in glass cases.
The day after, we climbed Vesuvius. You can see the remnants of the old cone, and how much was just blown apart. Vesuvius is quiet now, but I saw pictures of WWII Allied bombers flying near it with lots of smoke and ash in the air. If it has lots of little burps, nothing too terrible will come of it. But if it goes like in 79......well, even with a bit of warning, lots of people will die because that is a very densely populated area, and the Italians can’t form a queue in the best of times. An evacuation will be a train wreck.
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