Much of the art in the ancient apartment was found in pieces and needs to be conserved and put back together. Researchers say that it is liking putting together a jigsaw puzzle. The photo shows a small part of the fresco that covered the ceiling of the building. The colors of the fresco are well preserved, having survived nearly two millennia of time. When the fresco is put back together, archaeologists will show it to the public.
Realtor: “Yes, it’s 1,900 years old, but it’s got good bones.”
They used the same thing to color their walls as Kraft uses to color their mac and cheese!
“It just seems a little pricey for a unique fixer upper opportunity, that’s all. What do you think, Egon?”
“I think this building should be condemned. There’s serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members, the wiring is substandard, it’s completely inadequate for our power needs, and the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone.”
If you go to the original article, you will find a link to pics of the buildings as they are now and a digital reconstruction of them as they were.
One of the most interesting is a building called the Serapeum which is where all the ancients wore nothing but serapes imported from pre-Columbian Mexico by Phoenician merchants.
