Pompeii people

While Pompeii's destruction was awful and tragic, the lack of warning wasn't the worst part.

We are all familiar with the cast bodies of mount Vesuvius's victims but have you ever wondered what the people of Pompeii may have looked like? What they wore? Although we know a lot about the ancient people of Pompeii, their looks still are a bit of a mystery. By discovering more and more artefacts within the lost city, we have gotten a better understanding of these late people and how they would have looked like before their demise. What happened to the People in Pompeii? The Pompeii…

In 79 CE, volcanic Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii, Italy. Hidden from the world beneath pumice and ash, it was all but forgotten for ...

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Archaeologists carrying out excavations on the outskirts of the Roman city of Pompeii have discovered the remains of four people in the ruins of an ancient shop. It is believed that they had gathered in the shop to seek shelter from the violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius, when it erupted in 79 A.D., burying the city in ashes.

Inv. 110569 Erotic scene of a man and a woman, formerly displayed in the colonnade of the peristylum.

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried by an avalanche of boiling mud and lava. Pompeii was buried about 20-40 feet underground and Herculaneum about 60-75 feet. A young historian named Pliny the Younger witnessed the whole event from Misenum, about 20 miles away.

Illustration made for a book on history and it represents the exact moment mount Vesuvio erupts violently. It captures the town life of Pompeii and a scene inside a bakery. The whole scene is built in 3dsmax and rendered with Vray.

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