Comparing Pompeii And Ancient Rome

The city became a wasteland within the span of a single minute. A city once filled with life and energy; street cars driving down the street, little kids riding bikes and jumping rope, and adults walking to work with thoughts of a guaranteed tomorrow that will never come. A man made device, that destroyed everything in its path. However, the other city was a little different in terms of circumstances going back to the times of ancient Rome. The city had fallen victim to a natural disaster and become covered in ash only to be found decades later. Thus, one city will be considered a defeated and bruised city; the other a lost city frozen in time. Both cities were destroyed by a cataclysmic event, which are similar in certain aspects, with vastly

Also, it can be found due to the fact Pliny the Younger had no idea what we was witnessing which was made clear with what he wrote with these letters. Similarly, both of the events left tangible imprints of the tragedies. In the case of Hiroshima, the atomic bomb what is known as nuclear shadows, which is the presence of permantate shadows due to thermal radiation. This left the imprint of the actions that those affected by the bombs across the city. For instance, there appears to be shadows of a couple setting down on stairs, a little girl jumping rope, a bike on the concrete, and an old man walking with his cane upstairs. On the contrary, that was not the exact case when it came to Pompeii because the imprints in Hiroshima may have lived through the experience. The city came to be known to be frozen in time because it is. It is showing the last action of every individual in their last moment, from being locked in an embrace, taking a nap, or eating; the victim was flash-heated to remain in that moment forever efficiently freezing