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5 skeletons found at Pompeii [too late to dial IX-I-I]
Redazione ANSA Rome ^ | 24 October 2018 | unattributed

Posted on 10/27/2018 3:21:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

The remains of five people, probably two women and three children, were found in a bedroom in Pompeii on Wednesday.

The group probably took refuge in the bedroom in a desperate attempt to escape a shower of volcanic rocks that had filled the house, Pompeii director Massimo Osanna told ANSA.

"It's a shocking discovery, but also very important for the history of studies," Osanna said.

The skeletons were found in a house where a charcoal inscription was recently found backing the theory that the Mount Vesuvius eruption that destroyed the ancient Roman city took place in October of 79 AD, not August.

New excavations have taken place at the site, in the Regio V of Pompeii.

(Excerpt) Read more at ansa.it ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; godsgravesglyphs; massimoosanna; pompeii; regiov; romanempire; vesuvius
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To: Oscar in Batangas
Last year excavators found the remains of a pizza delivery guy, he totally missed the "XXX minutes or it's free" window.

41 posted on 10/28/2018 12:46:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: M1903A1

more sidebars, these about the Villa of the Papyri:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/villaofthepapyri/index

and the other major cache, the Oxyrhynchus papyri:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/oxyrhynchus/index

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/oxyrhynchuspapyri/index


42 posted on 10/28/2018 12:53:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: blueplum

CNN sucks!


43 posted on 10/28/2018 5:15:21 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Beowulf9; Big Red Badger; BradyLS; bert; blueplum; Chad N. Freud; Cold Heart; CtBigPat; Cvengr; ...
Amazing stuff, memory... here's a pre-eruption view of Vesuvius, with the peak intact, and showing the real reason the area was considered paradisiacal -- the rich soil from ancient eruptions made agriculture and vinoculture that much easier. The eruption that buried Pompeii and the other towns on the Bay of Naples was 1939 years ago; about 1800 years before that, a prehistoric town near modern Nola was buried in the same way, even some skeletons have been preserved.
(OS) Digital reconstruction of a Fresco depicting Bacchus wearing a brunch of grapes and Mount Vesuvius at its original state, from the Lararium of the House of the Centenary, Pompeii. [5994 x 3767]

(OS) Digital reconstruction of a Fresco depicting Bacchus wearing a brunch of grapes and Mount Vesuvius at its original state, from the Lararium of the House of the Centenary, Pompeii. [5994 x 3767]

44 posted on 10/28/2018 6:15:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thank you for that. I think some of the Emperors enjoyed Pompeii.


45 posted on 10/28/2018 6:18:10 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I wonder what the meaning is of the prominence of the snake motif..


46 posted on 10/28/2018 6:27:43 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

It’s associated with followers of Bacchus, seen here in Catullus (and hat tip to some anonymous scribbler on Wikipedia), wasn’t gonna guess, but I had one that was not right at all:

http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/cat64.shtml


47 posted on 10/28/2018 7:05:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: laplata
Most of the emperors were hard-working, and when they cut loose to enjoy themselves, boy, did they. :^)

48 posted on 10/28/2018 7:06:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SunkenCiv
Well, that's going to take some time! But you hooked me on 'churned azure billows with firm oar blades'

and Amphitrite, too:


49 posted on 10/28/2018 10:05:14 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: SunkenCiv

The only intact Vesuvius WE’LL ever see.


50 posted on 10/29/2018 6:39:01 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SunkenCiv

A Roman walks into a bar, sticks two fingers up to the barman and says, “Five beers please.”


51 posted on 10/29/2018 6:40:32 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9
LOL! He learned his lesson when he tried to order a Dos Equis and was served 20 of 'em.

52 posted on 10/29/2018 12:42:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Jamestown1630

:^)


53 posted on 10/29/2018 12:44:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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