The Incredible City of Pompeii
I've heard many times of Pompeii but never would I have imagined what it would be to be walking in it. Once a thriving and sophisticated Roman city, Pompeii was buried under meters of ash and pumice after the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. It is over 64 acres large and use to be inhabited by about 20,000 people. It felt like we could not completely explore it in a single day.
The whole day I was running around taking pictures...every angles were different and I could not settle on what was a "good shot". So I used the "spray and pray" method.
I can't think of another place in the world like Pompeii...imagine an entire city of people, killed within a few hours and buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice. We now can see and witness how people used to live and get a real feeling of how it would be.
Mount Vesuvius
Walking in a Ghost City
Miles and miles of roads, some one-way streets some both way. As the uncle of @annester said:
Imagine being a little 5 years old boy living in here, running down the street, watching sports and theater in the amphitheatre...coming back in time for dinner.
Just such a surreal experience.
Sophisticated 2000 years ago.
Conclusion
Thanks for all of your comments! Looking forward to share more photos with you guys. Our journey is almost to an end. Sorrento and Ana Capri's are next!
Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.
Just like yesterday, lol.
That is a metaphor
These structures have conserved centuries, will it be that modern structures are preserved for so many centuries and in good condition? Go workmanship of those gods.
Looking at the usage & climate change,
modern structures get obsolete soon
Perhaps the construction material influences
I always was fascinated by architecture when I took the Fall of the Roman Empire class . What was built then , people now couldn’t keep up with it . Old is gold after all. Just by looking at each picture , there’s so much history behind every part of it . I hope you guys are enjoying your vacation, I’ll be going with the baby to Pakistan in 3 weeks !!
Thanks for sharing beautiful photos. Mount Vesuvius has not erupted since 1944, but it is still one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. Experts believe that another Plinean eruption is due any day--an almost unfathomable catastrophe, since almost 3 million people live within 20 miles of the volcano’s crater.
Wow awesome pics. Ancient cultures always fascinated me. I learned about the island of Santorini in Greece where there's also a buried city when I was a kid and it was just so cool to me that there were ancient cities buried in the ground. Who knows, maybe there's more that we don;t know about yet?
Such a beautiful city, Nice shots, I watched the movie based on the story of how Pompeii was covered in ash and it was really sad. Looking forward to seeing more photos.
Hello my man @cryptoctopus, thanks for this post, i don't like seeing the movie pompei. It moves me to tears. After seeing the movies, i decided to read about it and i discovered that Pompeii is a vast archaeological site in southern Italy’s Campania region, it was buried under meters of ash and pumice after the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
When Mount Vesuvius erupted cataclysmically in the summer of A.D. 79, the nearby Roman town of Pompeii was buried under several feet of ash and rock. The ruined city remained frozen in time until it was discovered by a surveying engineer in 1748.
The preserved site features excavated ruins of streets and houses that visitors can freely explore.
Wow... nice photos. I'm a history researcher and I've heard a lot about Pompeii, even had to watch the movie.
Your photos are lovely, it really stirred up intrigue in me, wishing i was there.
I'm sure the experience was electrifying as you have made me feel.
I love your photos' angles, the contrast and how you describe your surreal experience in a vivid way.
Thanks for making my Sunday morning prettier :)
I will choose new wallpapers from here :) thank you for nice photos
Read about Pompeii so many times, especially how Mount Vesuvius erupt, it was scary tho but it's historical and so many lessons to learn from this great city.
Thanks for sharing and
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all this photos are like art and not real for me :) then i see them im thinking of ancient times like sparta,rome,greece .
btw while im in this mood, here is video