Archaeologists find street of balconies in Italy's Pompeii

[Judi Lynn]

Last edited Thu May 17, 2018, 07:51 PM - Edit history (1)

Updated 4:04 pm, Thursday, May 17, 2018

ROME (AP) — Archaeologists excavating an unexplored part of Italy's volcanic ash-covered city of Pompeii have discovered a street of houses with intact balconies that were buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.

Some of the balconies even had amphorae — the conical-shaped terra cotta vases that were used to hold wine and oil in ancient Roman times.

The culture ministry's Pompeii authority announced the discovery Thursday. It said the balconies were a "complete novelty" for this part of the buried city, which hasn't yet been fully excavated. A statement said the balconies will be restored and the area included in a tour open to the public.

https://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Archaeologists-find-street-of-balconies-in-12922975.php

(Short article, no more at link.)

Images of the volcano, the town, and bodies of citizens frozen in time:

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrEwSdPI_5aIogApFmLuLkF;_ylc=X1MDOTYwNTc0ODMEX3IDMgRiY2sDZWFlcjdmOWNnbDI5ZyUyNmIlM0Q0JTI2ZCUzRGZFVE9PSzFyWUgzS3VfNWJGaWk4THF3a19jX3JYc19ya1E2azM1dGQ0N2NwM1EtLSUyNnMlM0RkayUyNmklM0RhUld1NUEwY3cxX0t4T1NsM1EyTQRmcgMEZ3ByaWQDMk51dndQRXlTVS52alJ0dk1qMVVxQQRtdGVzdGlkA251bGwEbl9zdWdnAzEwBG9yaWdpbgNpbWFnZXMuc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDMARwcXN0cgMEcHFzdHJsAwRxc3RybAM3BHF1ZXJ5A1BvbXBlaWkEdF9zdG1wAzE1MjY2MDQ2MzEEdnRlc3RpZANudWxs?gprid=2NuvwPEySU.vjRtvMj1UqA&pvid=37CZHTEwLjHlO2d6WQqJMA2nNjUuMgAAAABWULvC&fr2=sb-top-images.search.yahoo.com&p=Pompeii&ei=UTF-8&iscqry=&fr=sfp

If this link doesn't work, just go to Yahoo images, and type "Pompeii." It's very interesting.

[RandomAccess]

1. As a kid I was fascinated by Pompeii --

I couldn't understand how people died in their beds if a volcano erupted. I thought it was all lava flow, and surely they'd just LEAVE before it reached them.

Mt. Saint Helens taught me about the other way volcanoes erupt. And of course Hawaii has just experienced a violent eruption today, after a couple of weeks of much more tame (tho inexorable) lava flow.

[spinbaby]

2. Look up "pyroclastic flow"

Not slow lava, but fast-moving hot ash.

[cstanleytech]

3. Its not just that either some of it was probably due to some of them dying due to toxic gases

released by all the volcanic activity.

[miyazaki]

5. That and thermal shock.

Anyone remaining alive in Herculaneum and Pompeii didn't have time to suffocate as they were incinerated almost instantaneously from the onrush of the superheated air and gas from the pyroclastic flow.

[LittleGirl]

4. Pompeii

Blew me away with its awesomeness!

[notdarkyet]

6. Thanks. I just spent over an hour looking at pics.

[BobTheSubgenius]

7. I didn't even know that they were still excavating Pompeii.

It's so great to read something interesting instead of the daily grind of this awful administration. It puts a lot of what I sincerely hope is a temporary aberration in contaxt....a city of people that met almost instant doom, many hundreds of years ago.

Perhaps our troubles aren't so insurmountable.