Pompeii: The Vanished City

Pompeii: The Vanished City
Author: Dale Brown
Time Life Education
Graduation Year: 1992
Language: English
Quality: excellent
Format: Pdf
Pages: 168
Size: 35,5 Mb

Late in August of 1991 the Roman citv of Pompeii, already one of the world's most famous and fascinating archaeological sites, offered a fresh glimpse of the nightmare that had doomed it more than 1,900 years earlier. The excavators who made the discovery were not particularly looking for additional details of the tragic hours on August 24 and 25, AD 79, when the outpourings of nearby Mount Vesuvius overwhelmed the citv. The diggers were to make repairs: They had received funding of $23 million from the Italian government to clear pebbly volcanic rubble called lapilli from several still-buried city blocks of Pompeii and restore the buildings underneath. But in the course of removing the rocky debris, they came upon a thick blanket of hardened ash, which inevitably turned their labors in a new direction.