Pompeii was discovered when workmen were digging a canal and they uncovered walls that had paintings. Rocco Gioacchino de Alcubierre went to Pompeii believing that it was the town of Stabiae, he started to unearth and excavate the site. It was not until 1763 when they figured out that the town was not Stabiae and instead was the town of Pompeii, they found out that it was Pompeii due to the inscriptions that they found which said “res publica Pompeianorum, the ‘state of the of the
unsafe place because Mt. Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano, it killed thousands of people, and it is located near the largely populated city of Naples. Most people don’t know this but Pompeii was destroyed as well as these two small towns named Stabiae and Herculaneum, and the unlucky people who could not make it out look like they were frozen in time because the ash fell and covered them and the rest of the city during the second eruption. Studies show that the people still alive between the two
scrape off the colour from the fresco and stealing morsels of marble as souvenirs destroy the monument at a very slow and pain staking way... ... middle of paper ... ...the sites Vesuvius national park opened and the 1997 the Pompeii, Herculaneum, stabiae and the Villa at Oplontis declared World Heritage Sites. These laws can help out better conserve the sites. In 1997 Italian parliament passes law stating that Pompeii and Herculaneum receive all money collected from entry fees help the sites to have
that contributed heavily to the way of life in Pompeii was the cities geographical location. The city was situated on a bay and was surrounded by rivers. Seneca tells us that “the city is a pleasant bay ….. bounded by the shores of Surrantum and Stabiae.” This meant that a large amount of trade took place in Pompeii, not only from the sea but from inland as well. Pompeii was also close to Vesuvius, a volcanic mountain. Pliny the Elder writes of this in his Natural History, “Pompeii [with Vesuvius
occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material, is one of the catastrophes in human history. It can devastate enormous areas, as well as people. The eruption of the Vesuvius in AD 79 buried the cities of Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae with ashes and mud. (Oracle think quest) The majority of ancient volcanoes, like Mt. Vesuvius in Italy and Mt. Tambora in Indonesia are all dormant volcanoes now. However, Mt. Etna, which have been erupting for millions of years, still remaining active