Wednesday 23 February 2011

pompeii bodies images

Where Pompeii was buried in ash and debris, which collapsed the roofs of its buildings, Herculaneum was encased in hot mud-flows, which set like concrete, preserving the city as it was in the moment Vesuvius erupted--even to the price of... The suburban baths, which I visited the last time I was in Herculaneum, were closed as unsafe and propped up with scaffolding--that was where they found the bodies of the ancient dead, a very moving and evocative place.

that these bodies make up
that these bodies make up

Pompeii has intrigued us ever
Pompeii has intrigued us ever

Pompeii bodies cast in Plaster
Pompeii bodies cast in Plaster

Plaster Cast-Pompeii
Plaster Cast-Pompeii

Explaining the Pompeii bodies
Explaining the Pompeii bodies

Casts of Bodies at Pompeii
Casts of Bodies at Pompeii

... the life of the ancient Romans. As can be seen from the map I created at the time of my visit, I was barely able to get a start of seeing what there is at Pompeii in a whole day (the tourist map gives a better picture of the place than my map, and I stole the image from this great website).... Of course, one of the spectacular things about the digs at Pompeii is the plaster casts of the bodies of the men and women who died in the eruption. I only managed to find one of the...
Modern Swashbuckler: I.4.09.04. Visit Pompeii

Since going to the Pompeii exhibition at the Melbourne Museum a couple of years ago, todays adventure was a key objective to achieve in our trip to Italy. And now its done. Tomorrow, we head to Roma,... With some of the scenes, whilst the images are amazing , you are looking at grey blocks on grey blocks. Doesn't always come up well. But we think that... Initial excavations of Herculaneum provided next to no bodies. Bit later, in the arched storage areas, many...
pompeii bodies images

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