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There Were Survivors in 79 CE!

Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2024 9:23 am
by Minimalist
https://www.rawstory.com/records-of-pomp...to-unders/

Records of Pompeii’s survivors discovered


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On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.


According to most modern accounts, the story pretty much ends there: Both cities were wiped out, their people frozen in time.
It only picks up with the rediscovery of the cities and the excavations that started in earnest in the 1740s.
But recent research has shifted the narrative. The story of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is no longer one about annihilation; it also includes the stories of those who survived the eruption and went on to rebuild their lives.
The search for survivors and their stories has dominated the past decade of my archaeological fieldwork, as I’ve tried to figure out who might have escaped the eruption. Some of my findings are featured in an episode of the new PBS documentary, “Pompeii: The New Dig.”

Re: There Were Survivors in 79 CE!

Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2024 2:13 am
by circumspice
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Re: There Were Survivors in 79 CE!

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2024 9:18 pm
by Minimalist

Re: There Were Survivors in 79 CE!

Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2024 7:33 pm
by DrDavidT
Minimalist wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 9:18 pm https://www.rawstory.com/records-of-pom ... to-unders/


See if you can access this link.
I accessed it but would need more time to examine the material before I agree or disagree with the author's thesis

Re: There Were Survivors in 79 CE!

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2024 12:20 am
by vopoyos525
Minimalist wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 9:18 pm https://www.rawstory.com/records-of-pom ... to-unders/
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See if you can access this link.
I did but there is nothing to prove the author's thesis is true or not.