Pompeii
Trip Start
Jun 29, 2008
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Trip End
Oct 01, 2008
Pompeii was very interesting. We walked through the ruined city in the sweltering heat for hours, with little shade. Our tour guide showed us one of the first "fast food shops", shops with little benches with holes in them to store the food. There were huge stones so that people could cross the roads, as when it rained, the sewerage ran out onto the road. We entered a wealthy Roman's house, which had frescos on the walls that were over 2000 years old. Some idiots had decided that it would be a good idea to graffiti a wall that was 2000 years old, and had taken archaeologists hundreds of years to excavate and restore. I cannot understand that sort of behaviour. I thought it was bad enough seeing the graffiti all over the walls of the Duomo bell tower in Florence. We saw Mount Vesuvius rising eerily from the mist behind the city, looking like it would erupt again any second. People still live all around it despite the risk of being buried by another eruption, taking advantage of the rich volcanic soil. Last of all, we saw the bodies which had been smothered, in their last pose before they died. There were slaves and their masters, and a pregnant woman among the bodies, and even a dog, all twisted and contorted, as if in terrible agony. These were disturbing images, with most of the skeletons still intact.
Comments
oh my
I didn't actually know that they let people view the bodies.. how horrible, to see them all in so much pain.
the pain
the pain's probably just a dull numbing sensation by now...