Sunday, February 05, 2017

Day trip to Naples and Pompeii (8/24/2016)

Before heading home from Rome, we took a day trip to Naples and Pompeii.
 View from Naples of the volcano whose eruption wiped out Pompeii.



 Shopping galleria in Naples


 Pompeii






 The ash protected paintings inside homes and buildings
 Pool inside a home that stored water and served ceremonial purposes


 Bath house
 Once researchers realized  that the hollow masses they kept coming across were in the shape of people, they poured plaster into them to get molds that revealed where people fell.  Their bones had turned to ash long ago.





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