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This video explains how the roman empire had rule along the whole Mediterranean Sea. Pompeii was an important port city under their rule. It was an important commercial sector, and consisted of 20,000 people. Since it was a port, it was also a hot centre for sailors. For their entertainment there were many restaurants, bars, bathhouses, and brothels. The video goes on to explain the intricate design of plumbing in the city. How fire was used to heat water, and how the roads were designed to let water flow.

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Pompeii, Italy: Window on Ancient Rome - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

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This video has 35 random facts about Pompeii. It tells us everything from location and time era, to day to day activities. An interesting fact about Pompeii was that it was a place where the rich would come vacation.

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Based on facts and proof, this video is a documentary that shows the whole layout of the city. It shows where the people of the city would live, go out, and socialize. Basically it describes the day to day activities of the roman city and the peoples lifestyle.

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Pompeii 1-day Tour - What to see in Italy's Roman ruins - Mini-documentary

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This is a picture of the plaster casts of some of the individuals that perished in the catastrophe. The individuals died immediately due to the sudden extreme change of temperature, and were also then covered with ashes. Archaeologists found that over the time the bodies decayed and left cavities where the body once existed. Plaster was poured into these cavities to make a 3d form of the actual individual in the position they died in.

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This website news article explains on how there are different theories for the cause of death for the people in Pompeii. Research suggests that the inhabitants didn’t die of suffocation when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, however from sudden exposure to extremely high temperatures in a pyroclastic cloud. After analyzing nearly, 100 skeletal casts, testing bone tissues, and creating simulations resembling the Vesuvius eruption, scientists conclude that people were killed instantly by the deadly temperatures. Other scientists disagree with this finding, and point to the letters of Pliny and Younger which were written 25 years after the eruption. In the letters it was written that those of Pompeii’s inhabitants who weren’t killed by falling rocks were subsequently suffocated by ashes and gas. In my personal opinion I believe there is some Ancient Wisdom involved here. How can scientists conclude based on letters that were written 25 years after the eruption, when scientific proof suggests that people were killed instantly. The reasons to belief include ancient wisdom, and also lead to ideological support in which some claim it’s moral, or politically correct.

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The site of Pompeii, near Naples in Italy has fascinated people for years. And now, research suggests that the inhabitants didn't die of suffocation when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, but from sudden exposure to extremely high temperatures in a pyroclastic cloud. After analyzing nearly 100 skeletal casts, testing bone tissue and creating simulations of the Vesuvius eruption, scientists at the Vesuvius observatory think that the people were killed instantly, by the volcano's lethal temperatures.

Says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, from the Vesuvius Observatory: "The lethal temperatures that killed the population around the volcano can be maintained inside the pyroclastic cloud as far as 20 kilometers from the volcano itself. And since Naples is only 10 kilometres from the volcano, at least three million people would be at risk if an eruption like that in 79AD were to happen again."

But other scientists disagree with this finding, and point to the letters of Pliny the Younger, which were written 25 years after the eruption. He wrote that those of Pompeii's inhabitants who weren't killed by falling rocks were subsequently suffocated by ashes and gas.

Says Antonio Varone, the director of the Pompeii archeologicial site: "People died from ashes clogging the lungs and causing death. If there also had been combustion phenomena, because at certain times the temperature was very high, I have nothing against it. But I must say that in many cases, we found wood absolutely not carbonized."

But if the pyroclastic cloud theory is correct, then at times of high eruption risk, people as far away as 20 kilometres from the volcano should be evacuated, and not only those 8 kms away as it required today.

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The site of Pompeii, near Naples in Italy has fascinated people for years. And now, research suggests that the inhabitants didn't die of suffocation when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, but from sudden exposure to extremely high temperatures in a pyroclastic cloud.

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This article gives an alternate view on Pompeii’s remains. It goes on to question if Pompeii is an ancient or modern wonder? All the remains of the individuals who perished, are made with plaster of Paris, or resin. When ashes and lava covered the bodies of the people, over time the bodies decayed and left cavities which were filled with the plaster to create life like 3D statues of the people in the position they died in. These statues are then replicated repeatedly. They are displayed in museums, and also sold as valuable artifacts. The replicated statues aren’t of the same significance, however are an archaeologist’s dream, since they can be made and sold for a lot of money.

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Is Pompeii an ancient or a modern wonder? Its ruins have been rebuilt and the bodies of the volcano's victims are plaster casts, says classical historian Mary Beard.

Last weekend I spent a couple of hours with the remains of one of the human victims of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79.

The corpse is apparently well preserved: a young woman, lying face down, shielding her face with her hands at the moment of death. Her dress has risen up and is tangled around her waist, her bare legs exposed beneath.

She is currently on display at the J Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, as the first exhibit in a show that explores the ways that modern artists - from Francesco Piranesi to Anthony Gormley - have responded to history's most famous volcanic eruption. "Welcome to Pompeii," she is meant to say. "The city of the dead".

Volcanic material covered the bodies, setting hard and solid around them, and as the flesh, internal organs and clothing gradually decomposed, a void was left

I was curious to find out what visitors to the exhibition made of her. So I lurked and listened.

The kids were the most forthcoming. Many of them rushed up to her, then uttered some variant of "Oooh, uggh! Is that a real Roman?" Their mums and dads tended to improvise one of two fairly predictable responses:

"Yes dear, it is, but don't worry - she died a very long time ago"

or "No, don't be silly, it's just a model"

In an odd way, both those answers turn out to be right.

Ghoulish as they are, for most of us (me included), these bodies are always one of the highlights of any display of the discoveries from Pompeii (and a group of them will be starring in an upcoming exhibition at the British Museum). They number in the hundreds altogether, each one a casualty of the eruption.

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And they are not just human victims either. One of the most famous is the remains of a dog, still tied up, straining at its leash, in a futile attempt to make a run for it.

The truth is, though, that they are not actually bodies at all. They are the product of a clever bit of archaeological ingenuity, going back to the 1860s.

The early excavators had noticed, as they dug through the volcanic debris that covered Pompeii, a series of distinctive cavities in the lava, sometimes containing human bones.

The reason for that soon became clear. The material from the volcano had covered the bodies of the dead, setting hard and solid around them. As the flesh, internal organs and clothing gradually decomposed, a void was left - which was an exact negative imprint of the shape of the corpse at the point of death.

It wasn't long before one bright spark saw that if you poured plaster of Paris into that void, you got a plaster cast that was an exact replica of the body, but only a replica - more an "anti-body" than a real body.

And not just that - once the cast had been made, it could be used in turn to make more and more copies of the same person, rather like post-mortem cloning.

In fact, at the very moment that one version of the young woman is greeting visitors to the Getty Museum in Malibu, an identical version has pride of place in another Pompeii exhibition in Denver, Colorado - different casts and recasts of the same void made by the same dead human being 2,000 years ago (and 5,000 miles away).

Pompeii imagined

Edward Bulwer-Lytton's bestselling 1834 novel The Last Days of Pompeii reflects 19th Century fascination with supposed decadence of ancient Rome

Up Pompeii! - TV sitcom (1969-70) starring Frankie Howerd (pictured) as put-upon slave Lurcio

Dr Who: The Fires of Pompeii (2008) - sci-fi show reveals that explosion was caused by aliens called Pyroviles living under Vesuvius

Bodies or anti-bodies, the re-creation of these ancient Romans in plaster caused a tremendous stir when it was first done in the mid-19th Century.

Family groups seemed to be brought back almost to life. Only the hardest of hearts remained unmoved at the sight of these doomed plaster people clinging to each other as catastrophe approached, mothers cradling their children, husbands embracing wives.

The clothes they were wearing also came as a shock. It was still generally believed in the 1860s that ancient Roman dress had been a skimpy affair, not merely suitable for warm Mediterranean climes, but flirtatiously flimsy and revealing too.

That idea faded almost instantly when the casts revealed that the victims were heavily clad, wrapped in cloaks and thick dresses, heads covered and some of them even in trousers. (Although I have never quite understood why those 19th Century historians were so certain that the garments people chose to wear in the middle of a volcanic eruption were a good guide to their usual day-to-day attire.)

But there are much wider issues at play than ancient Roman dress sense.

For a start, these strangely ambivalent objects bring us face to face with our own voyeurism. Why does it seem OK for us to gawp at these disaster victims, when it would be decidedly not OK to gawp at the death agonies of victims of a modern train crash or terror attack?

Is it because, as some parents at the Getty suggested to their kids, they are just so ancient that they don't matter to us in the same way? As if in becoming archaeological specimens they lost their right to human privacy? Or is it the simple fact that these are not Roman bodies that gives us licence to peer?

Surely, we don't imagine that a lump of 19th Century plaster poured into a void in the lava has any "right to privacy" - still less (as in the Getty example) a 20th Century copy of a 19th Century lump of plaster. As the other parents had it, they're "just models".

For me, though, these plaster victims prompt other thoughts too - about the city of Pompeii as a whole, and what it stands for. Partly that's because they are so eloquently trapped in that no man's land between the living and the dead, captured at the very moment when they lost their struggle against the fumes and lava.

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Which is a bit like the city too. Is it really a vast tomb? Or is Pompeii a place where we can go to step back in time into the lives of the ancient Romans?

When they're not in disaster-movie mode, modern visitors like to think of its living side, with Roman bread still in the Roman oven and the trundling Roman carts - or the seedy encounters in the Roman brothel - only a glimpse away. Not so tourists 200 years ago, who found it the ideal place to reflect on their own mortality.

It was the novelist Sir Walter Scott, visiting the site shortly before his death, who first described Pompeii as the "city of the dead" - words he muttered constantly as he was carried round the excavations in a sedan chair.

But more than anything, it's the combination of the ancient and the modern - the 19th Century plaster combined with the fleeting traces of those real dead Romans - that stands so well for Pompeii itself.

Of course, there's no question that it is the best-preserved ancient town anywhere in the world, one of the very few places in the world where you can actually walk the Roman streets. But an awful lot of what you see there was built - or rebuilt - in the 20th Century.

Keen as they were to reflect on the transience of human existence, early visitors to the site were often decidedly disappointed with the place. It was, frankly, a wreck.

It looked, as one disgruntled tourist observed, as if it had been destroyed in enemy action. Well, of course it looked like that. It had been devastated by a violent volcanic eruption.

It wasn't until the houses began to be rebuilt and reroofed around 1900 that Pompeii became something like the ancient city we now visit - until, that is, the site was heavily bombarded by the Allies in World War II (in what really was enemy action, with more than 160 bombs dropped on the place). Parts of what we now see are a rebuild of a rebuild.

I'm not accusing anyone of "faking it". My point is that our Pompeii - like most classical sites, in fact - is the product of collaboration between modern rebuilders and conservators, and the original Roman builders themselves, with the lion's share of the work on our side.

And it's no less impressive or moving for that - as the body casts help to show.

One of the video clips played in the exhibition at the Getty Museum comes from Roberto Rossellini's film, Voyage in Italy, in which the lead couple, played by Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders, tour the country as their marriage disintegrates.

On their visit to Pompeii they watch the plaster being poured into a cavity left by two of the victims. In the movie's most haunting scene, these victims emerge as a couple tenderly embracing in their final moments - and a silent indictment of the hollowness of the relationship between Bergman and Sanders.

It might only be modern plaster poured into an ancient hole, but it still has emotional power, as the kids and their parents were finding, in their own ways, last weekend.

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Is Pompeii an ancient or a modern wonder? Its ruins have been rebuilt and the bodies of the volcano's victims are plaster casts, says classical historian Mary Beard. Last weekend I spent a couple of hours with the remains of one of the human victims of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79.

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This website article goes into detail of how archaeologists work side by side with computer engineers, radiologists, and orthodontists to scan plaster-cast remains of 86 individuals, who perished when Pompeii was ruined by volcanic eruption in 79 AD. These highly detailed scans, provide a better look at the remains’ teeth, bones, and facial features. These details teach researchers more about the gender, age, diet, and health of these individuals.

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In Italy, a group of experts appointed by the Archaeological Superintendence of Pompeii are slowly bringing the ancient tragedy of Pompeii's volcanic eruption to life, one CAT scan at a time.

Archaeologists are working side by side with computer engineers, radiologists, and orthodontists, using cutting-edge imaging technology to scan the plaster-cast remains of 86 individuals who perished when the Italian city was decimated by a volcanic eruption in 79 CE. The scans, which provide a strikingly detailed look at the remains' teeth, bones, and facial features, are teaching the researchers more about Pompeii's residents-their gender, how old they were, what they ate, and whether they were in good health.

So far, researchers have scanned about 30 individuals. They recently shared their findings, revealing humanizing 3D pictures of the bodies beneath their plaster casts. The images include the remains of a presumed family: a 4-year-old boy, who was found resting near an adult man and a woman with an infant.

Thanks to their teeth and bones, experts now know a little more about the victims' lives-for instance, that they adhered to a diet rich in fruit and vegetables and had strong, healthy teeth thanks to fluorine in their local water source. A more sobering find: Many of them suffered severe head injuries, presumably from falling rubble during the eruption.

Although an estimated 2000 people died in Pompeii, only 1150 individuals have been discovered since the mid 19th century, when archaeologists began finding bodies buried beneath layers of hardened pumice. Their flesh had decomposed, leaving behind entire skeletons encased in the ashy residue. Researchers preserved the bodies' outlines by pouring plaster into the cavities, allowing the liquid to harden into a cast. So far, about 100 of these remains have been conserved, including skeletons from animals like a dog and a wild boar.

Twenty of the recently scanned casts are now on display at Pompeii. View photos of the research below.
All images courtesy of the Press Office of the Superintendence for Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabia
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Human Sacrifice May Have Taken Place at the 'German Stonehenge'

An ancient circular wooden monument in Germany- similar in age and appearance to England's Stonehenge-may have been a site for human sacrifice.

According to Smithsonian, German archaeologists André Spatzier and François Bertemes excavated a variety of Neolithic and Bronze Age antiquities dating back to the period between 2321 and 2211 BCE from Pӧmmelte, the "German Stonehenge" located in northeastern Germany. Among the broken drinking vessels, stone axes, and animal bones they expected to see (such relics were distinctive of the era's Bell Beaker culture), researchers also found the dismembered bodies of 10 women and children.

Four bodies showed signs of skull trauma and rib fractures that occurred before death, researchers write in the journal Antiquity. The skeleton of a teenager had tied hands. All 10 bodies were found in positions suggesting they were thrown into the burial shafts.

"It remains unclear whether these individuals were ritually killed or if their death resulted from intergroup conflict, such as raiding," researchers say in the study.

Those 10 bodies stood in contrast to the nearby graves of 13 men (all between 17 and 30 years old at death), which were buried in a respectful manner. The gender-specific violence and burial differences shown at Pӧmmelte make ritual sacrifice a likely scenario, researchers say.

Spatzier told Live Science that Pӧmmelte was in use for about 300 years before it was destroyed-likely intentionally-around 2050 BCE. The site was discovered in 1991 when aerial photographers spotted it shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Archaeologists Excavate the Field Where Woodstock Was Held

Over 400,000 people attended the original Woodstock music festival in New York's Catskill Mountains. If any of the concertgoers left something behind-say, lost jewelry or discarded pinback buttons-it stood a chance of being unearthed by researchers nearly five decades later.

That's because archaeologists from New York's Binghamton University recently excavated the site of the 1969 concert in hopes of mapping out where some of the infamous events of Woodstock went down, the Los Angeles Times reports. The nondescript hillside in the small town of Bethel once served as a stage for some of the greatest names in rock and roll history, from Jimi Hendrix to Janis Joplin to The Who.

Woodstock lasted only three days in 1969, but its legacy has endured. Last year, the site-otherwise known as the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts-was added to the National Register of Historic Places. A museum on the property hosts public walking tours of the former festival grounds, but photographs from the period aren't the most accurate indicator of where exactly the stage was located, archaeologists say. Their research will be used to help the museum plan more precise "interpretive walking routes" for Woodstock's 50th anniversary next year.

Project director Josh Anderson told the Los Angeles Times their excavation will serve as a "reference point." "People can stand on that and look up at the hill and say, 'Oh, this is where the performers were. Jimi Hendrix stood here and played his guitar at 8:30 in the morning,'" Anderson said.

As far as artifacts go, the team of archaeologists probably won't be selling any of their finds to a museum or auction house. They didn't dig up much, save for a few pull tabs from aluminum cans (probably of the alcoholic variety) and shards of broken glass bottles. For more insight into what this historic concert was like, you'll want to head to the Bethel Woods museum, which offers a permanent collection of photos, videos, and memorabilia from the period.

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Stunningly Detailed 3D Scans of Pompeii Victims

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In Italy, a group of experts appointed by the Archaeological Superintendence of Pompeii are slowly bringing the ancient tragedy of Pompeii's volcanic eruption to life, one CAT scan at a time.

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This is a picture of Pompeii, which is a large archaeological site located in Italy. Pompeii was once a thriving and sophisticated Roman city which was buried in meters of ash and pumice after the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The site was lost for about 1500 years until it’s initial discovery in 1599 and broader discovery in 1748.