Day Twenty-One Pompeii: | |
We took a short train ride to Pompeii this morning.
We spent at least half the day walking the streets and contemplating the awful destruction of 79 AD.
Still, Pompeii is a most impressive ancient city. It's huge - almost as big as downtown Poway.
I could spend a couple more days there and still not have a grasp of this giant snapshot of history. These people had plumbing in a city that was started around 800 BC.
Unfortunately they were lead pipes and they surely didn't know anything about lead poisoning.
The structures, the art, the streets, everything is impressive about this city. For more about Pompeii, see:
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Map of Pompeii
View of Pompeii From the Visitor's Center
Heading to The Entrance to the City
Heading to The Entrance to the City
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Amazing Architecture
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Pam & Debbie Plot How To Get the Boys
To Build One of These in the Back Yard
To Build One of These in the Back Yard
It's Easy Wayne, Just Dig a Foundation,
Get a Milion Tons of Rock, Then You Just...
Get a Milion Tons of Rock, Then You Just...
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Mosaics Were Very Popular
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Recovered Pottery
Recovered Pottery
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More Pottery & Stoneware
Some Poor Souls Became Petrified Snapshots
The Hollowed Shapes Were Filled With Plaster,
But in Most Cases, the Bones are Still in the Casting
But in Most Cases, the Bones are Still in the Casting
Even Dogs Couldn't Escape Fast Enough
More of Pompeii's Artifacts
Can't Imagine What it Was Like
More Pottery
Another Lost Soul
More Recovered Goodies
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Public Toilet Seats Once Rested on the Protruding Stones
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Dem Bones, Dem Bones
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Frozen in Time
Frozen in Time
Looks Like a Whole Family
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Pompeii Floor Mosaic
Artist's Rendering of the Temple of Apollo
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Mosaic of Alexander The Great's
Battle With King Darius of Persia
Battle With King Darius of Persia
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Sunken Mosaic, Maybe a Fountain
Lots of Mosaics in Pompeii
Most Likely, There Were Many Gardens
Beautiful Gardens
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Hard to See, But in the Back is a Beautiful Mosaic
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Pam in the Kitchen -
I'll Stop Before I'm in Too Much Trouble
I'll Stop Before I'm in Too Much Trouble
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I Wonder What the Porpoise of This Mosaic Is?
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There Were a Couple Nice
Theatres Too - This is a Smaller One
Theatres Too - This is a Smaller One
The Gladiator Barracks
Gladiator Waynus Photus Camerus
The Gladiator Barracks
The Gladiator Barracks
The Big Theatre
Check Out the Grooves Carved By Hundreds
Of Years of Cart Traffic - But Still In
Better Shape Than the Streets of San Diego
Of Years of Cart Traffic - But Still In
Better Shape Than the Streets of San Diego
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Bronze Statue of a Boar Being Attacked By Hunting Dogs
Another View of the Statue
Bronze Statue
More Pompeii Art
More Pompeii Art
The Streets of Pompeii
Ancient McDonalds
Ancient McDonalds - I Think
This Was the Drive-Through Door
This Was the Drive-Through Door
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Palaestra
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Pompeii's Large Ampitheatre -
Small Version of Rome's Colloseum
Small Version of Rome's Colloseum
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Pompeii's Large Ampitheatre
Debbie Taking a Soil Sample
Pompeii's Large Ampitheatre
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Some of Pompeii's Statues
Pam, Wayne & Debbie Resting in the Shade
If a Bust is Busted, What is it Called?
Looks Like They Panicked & Lost Their Heads
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Good View of Mount Vesuvius
Looking Down at the Gladiator's
Barracks, the Quadriportico
Barracks, the Quadriportico
Big Theatre on the Left & the Small One on the Right
