http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/pompeii/ en-us Sat, 5 Dec 2009 02:52:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2400722/posts Google has added Pompeii to its Street View application, allowing internet users to take a 360-degree virtual tour of the ancient Roman city. Italy's culture ministry says it hopes the move will boost tourism to the site, state news agency Ansa reports. Among the ruins visible on the search engine's free mapping service are the town's statues, temples and theatres. The city was buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79 and was not discovered until the 18th Century. The volcanic debris preserved many of the city's buildings, frescos, silverware, mosaics and other artefacts. "Giving people a chance to... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2400722/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 02:52:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2394760/posts Brisbane may be 2000 years and half-a-world away from Pompeii, but it hasn't stopped a UQ archaeologist from digging up some hidden treasures. Dr Andy Fairbairn, a senior lecturer in archaeology with UQ's School of Social Science, is working on a project looking at the life inside one of the world's most famous dig sites... He does this by collecting samples from what would have been the toilets of the day to see the types of food were eaten... He said his team of volunteer archaeology students patiently go through hundreds of bags of samples collected in Pompeii, looking for... University of Queensland http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2394760/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:56:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2294514/posts Digging deeper: Archaeologists race to show Pompeii daily life http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2294514/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:39:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2257280/posts On Aug. 24, 79 A.D., Italy's Mount Vesuvius exploded, burying the Roman towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii under tons of super-heated ash, rock and debris in one of the most famous volcanic eruptions in history. Thousands died. But somehow, hundreds of papyrus scrolls survived -- sort of -- in a villa at Herculaneum thought to have been owned at one time by Julius Caesar's father-in-law. The scrolls contained ancient philosophical and learned writings. But they were so badly damaged -- literally turned to carbon by the volcanic heat -- that they crumbled when scholars first tried to open them centuries... Lexington Herald-Leader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2257280/posts#comment Sun, 24 May 2009 12:28:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2226294/posts The delicately painted statue, which was discovered in the ancient ruins of Herculaneum in 2006 and believed to depict an Amazon Warrior, is now the subject of a joint restoration project by the University of Southampton, the University of Warwick, and the Herculaneum Conservation Project. Highly sophisticated digital imaging is vital for the recording, subsequent analysis and restoration of cultural heritage material... A specially-designed rig, camera structure, and associated custom software was developed in the School of Electronics and Computer Science by Dr Kirk Martinez and the team in the Mechanical Workshop to enable very fast acquisition of PTM data,... University of Southampton http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2226294/posts#comment Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:16:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2194200/posts Researchers hope to learn more about our heritage by discovering whether the items were imported from southern Italy, or manufactured using similar techniques in Britain. The bronze artifacts, which include a wine-mixing vessel, jugs and ceremonial pan-shaped objects, were discovered in Kent in two high status Roman pit-burials that are among the best examples ever seen in Britain... Archaeological scientists will compare the 1st Century AD artifacts from Kent with those from Pompeii in Italy. The neutron beams at the world-leading ISIS facility allow for detailed crystal structure analysis of intact delicate objects without cutting out a sample of the... RedOrbit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2194200/posts#comment Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:22:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2149007/posts At around 1:00 p.m. on Aug. 24, 79 A.D., Pompeii residents saw a pine tree-shaped column of smoke bursting from Vesuvius. Reaching nine miles into the sky, the column began spewing a thick pumice rain. Many residents rushed in the streets, trying to leave the city. "At that moment, Polybius' house was inhabited by 12 people, including a young woman in advanced pregnancy. They decided to remain in the house, most likely because it was safer for the pregnant woman. Given the circumstances, it was the right strategy," Scarpati said... At around 7:00 p.m., by which time the front part... Discovery News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2149007/posts#comment Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:31:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2110645/posts POMPEII, Italy, OCT. 19, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI placed the world in Mary's hands during his one-day visit to the shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in Pompeii, near Naples. The Pope's leading of the Supplication of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary, a prayer written by Blessed Bartolo Longo (1841-1926) was one of the high points of this 12th pastoral trip in Italy. "We implore you to have pity today on the nations that have gone astray, on all Europe, on the whole world, that they might repent and return to your heart," the text of the prayer... ZNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2110645/posts#comment Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:23:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2109714/posts Pompeii (AsiaNews) - Entrusting the synod on the Word of God to Mary, "in whose womb to Word was made flesh," "that it may bring the fruit of authentic renewal to every Christian community," and urging prayers for those who "exert their energies in service of the proclamation of the Gospel to all nations." These are the reasons for the pilgrimage that Benedict XVI made today to Pompeii, the town near Naples reborn last century around the shrine conceived by Blessed Bartolo Longo and dedicated in a special way to the Rosary, which the pope described today as "a... ANS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2109714/posts#comment Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:52:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2064585/posts The unique library of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, buried beneath lava by Vesuvius's eruption in AD79, is slowly revealing its long-held secretsSTORED in a sky-lit reading room on the top floor of the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples are the charred remains of the only library to survive from classical antiquity. The ancient world's other great book collections -- at Athens, Alexandria and Rome -- all perished in the chaos of the centuries. But the library of the Villa of the Papyri was conserved, paradoxically, by an act of destruction. Lying to the northwest of ancient Herculaneum, this... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2064585/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:35:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1619780/posts for 10 years, an Italian team has been beavering away underground to reveal the wonders of Pozzuoli, once the port of ancient Rome, which is buried under a 16th century city. Excavators at Pompeii, entombed in ash and toxic debris by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, were able to remove the volcanic material and expose the city to the open air. But in Pozzuoli, whose beauty was such that the great Roman orator Cicero called it "little Rome," the ancient streets were encased in the foundations of a new city built by the Spanish in the 1500s,... Ancient Worlds (Reuters, Yahoo) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1619780/posts#comment Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:04:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2103309/posts The people of the Mondsee Lake settlement were apparently relatively advanced within this cultural group. They had metallurgical skills, which were rare in Europe. They cleverly searched the mountains for copper deposits, melted the crude ore in clay ovens and made refined, shimmering red weapons out of the metal. In dugout canoes... they paddled along the region's river networks and sold their goods in areas of present-day Switzerland and to their relatives on Lake Constance. Even Otzi the Iceman had an axe, made of so-called Mondsee copper. At approximately 3200 B.C., says Binsteiner, the master blacksmiths were struck by a... Der Spiegel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2103309/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:51:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2094392/posts Remains of rotten fish entrails have helped establish the precise dating of Pompeii's destruction, according to Italian researchers who have analyzed the town's last batch of garum, a pungent, fish-based seasoning. Frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption that covered Pompeii and nearby towns nearly 2,000 years ago with nine to 20 feet of hot ash and pumice, the desiccated remains were found at the bottom of seven jars. The find revealed that the last Pompeian garum was made entirely with bogues (known as boops boops), a Mediterranean fish species that abounded in the area in the summer months of... Discovery News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2094392/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:30:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073080/posts Over several centuries, millions of tourists have visited Pompeii to acquaint themselves with the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius that began on Aug. 24, 79 A.D. But while it's the most famous eruption site, the ancient Roman city 15 miles south of Naples isn't the best place to gauge the volcano's awesome destructive power. For that, one should visit lesser-known Herculaneum, which is closer to Vesuvius, or Oplontis and Stabiae, two sites more recently uncovered and still relatively unknown to tourists. In these places, several of which are still being excavated, the eruption's consequences are more visible. Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073080/posts#comment Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:49:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1957682/posts An ancient tannery in the archaeological complex of Pompeii, a city destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the first century, will be restored, officials said Monday. The tannery -- discovered in the 19th century and excavated in the 1950s -- includes water pipes, 15 round tubs and the tannery manager's house, archaeological officials said. A drying area is also believed to have been part of the complex. Restoration of the tannery, which is believed to be among the world's most ancient, is expected to start this year, the statement said. No other information was immediately available. Pompeii was destroyed in... SignOn SanDiego http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1957682/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:51:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791021/posts The ground on the western edges of Naples, Italy is rising, spurring worries of a possible volcanic eruption, but scientists now think they know exactly what is causing the uplift and may be able to better predict any potential eruption. Using GPS measurements, a group of scientists at the National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology in Italy monitored the ground’s motions for several years, and based on the patterns they observed, they believe the uplifting is caused by magma intruding from a shallow chamber. The rising motions of the ground reached a peak rate of about three feet per year... LiveScience http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791021/posts#comment Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:47:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779188/posts First Pompeii uncoveredSamnites founded city in Third Century BC (ANSA) - Rome, February 1 - The origins of the famed buried city of Pompeii have emerged from years of excavations, an international conference in Rome was told Thursday. The first Pompeii was not built by the Romans or even by the Greeks who preceded them, but by an ancient people called the Samnites, Pompeii heritage Superintendent Piero Guzzo told a packed audience of archaeologists and scholars. Wielding photos of inscriptions, votive offerings and even entire buildings, Guzzo said "a new season of studies has begun". "For the first time we... Ansa http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779188/posts#comment Sun, 4 Feb 2007 22:34:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1633289/posts The U.S. Department of Interior has designated Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds as a national natural landmark, the first such landmark to be designated in almost two decades. The site, near the town of Neligh (see Nebraska map), is home to hundreds of skeletons of extinct rhinos, camels, three-toed horses, and other vertebrates that were killed and buried by ash from a huge volcanic eruption some 12 million years ago. It is the only place on Earth where large numbers of fossil mammals have been found as whole, three-dimensionally preserved skeletons. "Ashfall has tremendous value for science and education and great... National Geographic News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1633289/posts#comment Tue, 16 May 2006 20:19:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1606190/posts Brooklyn College Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology Alfred L. Rosenberger is part of a team of Argentinean and United States scholars who have identified a new species of monkey that once roamed the forests of South America. The discovery of the monkey species, Killikaike blakei, is the result of painstaking analysis of a small, perfectly preserved monkey skull that was found embedded in volcanic rock by members of an Argentinean ranching family. The results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. This fossil, which is dated to 16.4 million years ago, is a spectacular addition... BC Hot News (Brooklyn CUNY) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1606190/posts#comment Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:53:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1591759/posts Think Pompeii got hit hard? Worse eruptions lurk By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent Mon Mar 6, 5:03 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The preserved footprints and abandoned homes of villagers who fled a giant eruption of Mount Vesuvius 3,800 years ago show the volcano could destroy modern-day Naples with little warning, Italian and U.S. researchers reported on Monday. The eruption buried entire villages as far as 15 miles (25 kilometres) from the volcano, cooking people as they tried to escape and dumping several feet (metres) of ash and mud. New excavations show far more extensive damage than that... Yahoo - Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1591759/posts#comment Tue, 7 Mar 2006 19:10:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1526464/posts Villa buried by Pompeii eruption is unearthed By Hilary Clarke in Rome (Filed: 22/11/2005) An archaeological dig on the Amalfi coast has revealed the first luxury villa to be built in the idyllic fishing village of Positano, a popular haunt of today's rich and famous. A frescoe on a wall of the villa found in Positano Two storeys of a first century millionaire's abode have been found under a church which was hidden for 2,000 years by the same volcanic eruption that devastated Pompeii in 79AD. During renovation work on the church's crypt last summer, roof beams were found poking... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1526464/posts#comment Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:30:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1445497/posts Decorated cups and fine silver platters were once again polished and on display Monday as archaeologists unveiled an ancient Roman dining set that lay hidden for two millennia in the volcanic ash of Pompeii.In 2000, archaeologists found a wicker basket containing the silverware in the ruins of a thermal bath near the remains of the Roman city, said Pietro Giovanni Guzzo, head of Pompeii's archaeological office.The basket was filled with the volcanic ash that buried the city when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. When experts X-rayed it, they saw the objects preserved in the ash, which killed thousands of... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1445497/posts#comment Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:40:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1411282/posts ROME - Sauces made from fermented fish entrails. A quiche-like pastry shell filled with bay leaves and ricotta cheese. For dessert, peaches with aromatic cumin and honey. Those tastes may not be for everyone's palate, but the specialties of ancient Pompeii are being revived for a month at the site of the ruins by a research project intended to give new insights into how the Romans lived. Pompeii's busiest restaurant was buried with the rest of the prosperous city when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. The eruption killed thousands of people, but a 20-foot-deep cocoon of volcanic ash kept... Duluth News Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1411282/posts#comment Fri, 27 May 2005 00:28:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1293135/posts Pompeii's burial not its first disaster Sid Perkins From Denver, at a meeting of the Geological Society of America Recent excavations reveal that the ancient city of Pompeii, famed for its burial by an eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, suffered through several devastating landslides in the centuries preceding its volcanic demise. About three-fourths of Pompeii has been excavated, says Jean-Daniel Stanley of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. However, most of the digs in the city have extended down only to the ground level of dwellings that were standing in the 1st century. In... Science News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1293135/posts#comment Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:17:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1274500/posts Pompeii pottery may rewrite history Heather Catchpole ABC Science Online Monday, 8 November 2004 A broken plate is one of the pieces in the puzzle of how ancient cultures traded (Image: Jaye Pont) Archaeologists may need to change their view of Pompeii's role in trade and commerce, after a ceramics expert's recent discovery. Australian researcher Jaye Pont from the Museum of Ancient Cultures at Sydney's Macquarie University says people who lived in Pompeii bought their pottery locally and didn't import it. Pont said the find could "make waves" among archaeologists looking at trade in the Mediterranean. And she said researchers... ABC Net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1274500/posts#comment Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:40:27 GMT