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ralfmaximus · 6 months

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Nearly 2,000 years ago, a cloud of scorching ash from Mount Vesuvius buried a young man as he lay on a wooden bed. That burning ash quickly cooled, turning some of his brain to glass.

"Volcano turned a dude's brain to glass" sounds incredibly fake and if you put that into a science fiction film nobody would buy it. And yet...

#vesuvius #pompeii #volcano

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nemfrog · 2 months

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Vesuvius. Complete story of the Martinique and St. vincent horrors. 1902.

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#vesuvius #geology #volcano #volcanoes #eruption #photography #nemfrog #1902 #early 1900s

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howamidrivinginlimbo · 1 month

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The ancient city of Pompeii, Italy

On the first photo is the house of Paquius Proculus. On the last photo is the fullonica of Stephanus, a laundry worker who used the house as his workshop.

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villainboygirl · 3 months

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Mobius' little, adorable mimic of a the explosion of Vesuvius while he's talking to Loki🥺🥺

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illustratus · 8 months

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Vesuvius Eruption at Night overlooking the Scuola di Virgilio, 1822

by Josef Rebell

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parthenopehasnograve · 1 year

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Snowy Vesuvius, Naples (Italy) ©

#vesuvius #naples #napoli #pompeii #italy #campania #snow #castel dell'ovo #winter

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ashintheairlikesnow · 10 months

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In the ruins of Pompeii, there is a room inside a house where two men were painting on the day Mt. Vesuvius erupted in AD 79.

The master painter was at work on the fresco itself, twining vines in green, men and women looking out of the image to one side. His partner, probably an apprentice or lesser, younger painter, was laying down fresh plaster nearby. We know it was fresh because the pumice left significant pockmarks in it as it dried that we can still see today.

There are holes where a shelf stood holding the different colors of paint, in the wall just below the unfinished fresco. We found jars of paint on the floor - red green blue white yellow black. We found his tools, the brushes and the pot of lime that kept the paint wet.

He spilled lime on the painting.

We can tell that, too. It is caked clear as day over the unfinished work.

In a documentary I am watching, an Italian anthropologist discussing the moment of eruption looks to the cameraman and says, with real sincerity, "We found their tools, but we didn't find them. We hope that they ran away, that they survived."

Next door, a baker left his livestock behind when he fled. We found the skeletal remains of the animals who helped to move the millstone, but we did not find the baker.

Not that we are certain of, anyway.

I just wanted to take a moment to think about a modern Italian anthropologist looking at unfinished paintings and bread turned to stone by ash and time, hoping to himself that those people made it out in time.

We are separated by almost two thousand years, but we still have empathy for lives facing terror beyond their understanding. We still hope against hope that two painters ran out of town and made a new life somewhere else, that they escaped before the final pyroclastic flows descended.

We hope the baker moved to another town.

We recognize ourselves in what was left behind, and hope that these people - who could have been us, but for a trick of time and place - had a fighting chance to survive.

I just.

Sometimes, I love people.

I love us.

#history #pompeii #mt. Vesuvius #mount vesuvius #vesuvius #volcano #italy #people have always been people

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relightthestars · 1 year

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Pompeii (Italy)

#Pompeii #vesuvius #Italy #travel #travel inspo #travel photoset #travelphotography #photography #view #city #nature #europe #landscape #sky #travel photography #explore europe #skyscape #roman

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justpicsofstuff · 11 days

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Pompeii, Italy 🌋

#photography #x100 #x100f #x100v #street photography #travel #urban photography #holiday #architecture #art #pompeii #vulcano #italy #vesuvius

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louisemphotos · 2 months

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Italy, Pompeii 2023

#pompeii #italy #napoli #vesuvius #volcano #history #europe

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ancientcharm · 6 months

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Early in the morning of October 25, 79 (year 832 in ancient Rome), Pliny the Elder died on the coast of Stabia during the expulsion of the last pyroclastic surge that came out of Vesuvius. The interesting thing is that he is the only ancient writer, and important Roman soldier and politician who died due to a natural disaster. Ironically, his passion was the study of nature. Pliny, born in 23, spent his childhood and teens during the dark reign of Tiberius ( 14-37) whom he referred to as "the saddest of men". He praised the emperor Claudius (41-54) saying that "Claudius was one of the best writers". During the reign of Nero (54-68) Pliny attended the construction of the Domus Aurea, emperor's palace.

Pliny began his military career in Germania. During the reign of Vespasian (December 69-June 79) he was procurator in Gaul and Hispania. Pliny was a close friend of Emperor Vespasian who in 77 appointed him commander of the Roman navy and that is why Pliny settled with his family in Misenum (the same city where emperor Tiberius died) on the coast of the Gulf of Naples, near Pompeii. He tried to help in the disaster but ended up among the victims of one of the most famous and deadly volcanic eruptions in history.

The day of the eruption, the youngest son of Vespasian, brother of the then emperor Titus and who two years later would become emperor Domitian, was celebrating his birthday.

Today we know what happened thanks to Pliny the Younger, also a writer, who documented in detail what he saw from Misenum as well as the testimonies he heard from the survivors in Stabia who were with his uncle.

#history #roman empire #ancient rome #vesuvius #ancient history

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gwydpolls · 5 months

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Time Travel Question 35: Ancient History XVI and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

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the-cricket-chirps · 1 month

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Katsushika Hokusai, South Wind, Clear Sky, 1830

Andy Warhol, Vesuvius, 1985

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wandering-jana · 1 month

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View of the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius.

March 14, 2024

#naples #vesuvius #Napoli #travel #Italy #Italia #cityscape #original photography #photographers on tumblr #photography #lensblr #urban exploration #urban landscape #bay of Naples #wanderingjana

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villainboygirl · 3 months

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I need to know why the hell Mobius, listing the wondering of Chicago of 1893, also mentions H. H. Holmes, one of the most infamous serial killers who ever lived.

On the other hand, we are talking about Loki and Mobius. Whose reaction to witnessing the eruption of Vesuvius was this:

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illustratus · 1 month

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The eruption of Vesuvius, 1794 — Circle of Camillo de Vito

#vesuvius #vesuvio #mount vesuvius #volcano #volcanoes #art #camillo de vito #camillo di vito #eruption #eruptions #volcanic #lava #fire #clouds #mediterranean #southern italy #italy #europe #european

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