[SunkenCiv]

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]

[laplata]

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

[Jamestown1630]

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

[Beowulf9]

The only intact Vesuvius WE’LL ever see.