the Mount Vesuvius eruption of 79 ad is
one of the most famous natural disasters
of European history killing thousands of
people and completely decimating several
Roman settlements including Pompeii
welcome to watchmojo.com down the five
most amazing facts about Pompeii
arguably the most well known victim of
that fateful day number five Vesuvius
eruption was more powerful than an
atomic bomb
the power of the soo veces eruption is
almost impossible to imagine around 1:00
p.m. the mountain exploded and the
entire comb was blown off releasing a
massive cloud of gas ash and stone into
the air and turning the city dark as the
debris blocked out the Sun little boy
the bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima
in August 1945 is said to have been so
powerful that it left human shaped
imprints in the pavement the bomb
released energy equivalent to roughly 15
kilotons of TNT which decimated the city
within seconds the SU visas eruption
however is estimated to have released
100,000 times more thermal energy than
that
number four the deceased have been made
into body casts you’re probably gonna
want to try to minimize the sweating
they just think cool thoughts in a
fascinating feat of archaeology these
body casts have preserved some of the
victims final moments before death
during early excavations of pompeii
empty voids in the ash were discovered
with human remains in them the Italian
archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorello deduced
that these voids were left by the bodies
of the pyroclastic flow victims and
filled them with plaster creating the
first Pompeii body casts these casts are
so realistic that even various clothes
and facial features are identifiable
some of the more disturbing displays
include an individual and a praying
position and a child resting on their
mother’s lap with a look of content
frozen on their faces number three
Pompeii cemeteries also served as dumps
the graveyards of Pompeii weren’t just
restoring the dead archeologists have
found cemeteries throughout the city
that have been littered with debris
including charred animal bones broken
pottery and discarded tools research
done by the University of Cincinnati
reveals that the citizens of Pompeii had
very lacks rules about garbage disposal
and the city’s cemeteries were placed
alongside heavily traveled roads and
along city walls for everyone to see you
shouldn’t want me here it’s this rice
ball as such they concluded that the
cemeteries were so heavily trashed
because these ancient Romans simply
didn’t care where their garbage was
discarded in their eyes a cemetery was
as good a place as any number two
Vesuvius gave plenty of warnings before
erupting you can’t say that the people
of Pompeii weren’t warned seventeen
years before the eruption a major
earthquake seriously damaged Pompeii
leaving the otherwise luxurious city in
disarray and caused many citizens to
flee as 600 sheep were killed by
poisonous gas in the air some experts
believe that this was an early sign of
the volcano’s awakening while repairs
were still being made in 79 AD strange
things began to happen around Pompeii
wells dried-up vines on the slopes of
Vesuvius wilted and died and there was a
dramatic increase in seismic activity
because tremors were considered normal
for the region the citizens simply shrug
their shoulders and carried on with
business as usual
besides Pompeii was a popular vacation
destination for Romans and nothing kills
a holiday vibe more than impending doom
kind of makes you wonder what it’s like
to live on the edge of catastrophe but
carry on as though everything was fine
he seems at home in the sea but he
cannot swim
indefinitely number one the people of
Pompeii were weirdly obsessed with sex
by some people standards anyway I
spend our last moments running here in
North America we have this prudish
legacy of Puritanism that we’re still
dealing with when it comes to sex but
not so in ancient Rome in Pompeii sex
was a normal and everyday concept of
life and as such the city was littered
with symbols of it brothels were common
complete with explicit graffiti that is
still legible today frescoes containing
images of graphic sexual content
abounded phallic symbols adorn public
areas and there was even a statue made
of the god Pan having sex with a goat
these findings were deemed so
controversial and taboo that King
Francis the first of Naples had them
locked away holding them in the secret
cabinet section of the Naples National
Archaeological Museum due to their
graphic nature the cabinet was closed
for nearly a hundred years although it
was open briefly in the 60s and finally
reopened for viewing in 2000 I guess
modern Italy has that whole Catholic
legacy thing to deal with
so do you want to go and visit Pompeii
for yourself and how would you react it
seeing a pyroclastic flow coming
barreling down towards you for more Sun
blocking top tens and garbage throwing
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one of the most famous natural disasters
of European history killing thousands of
people and completely decimating several
Roman settlements including Pompeii
welcome to watchmojo.com down the five
most amazing facts about Pompeii
arguably the most well known victim of
that fateful day number five Vesuvius
eruption was more powerful than an
atomic bomb
the power of the soo veces eruption is
almost impossible to imagine around 1:00
p.m. the mountain exploded and the
entire comb was blown off releasing a
massive cloud of gas ash and stone into
the air and turning the city dark as the
debris blocked out the Sun little boy
the bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima
in August 1945 is said to have been so
powerful that it left human shaped
imprints in the pavement the bomb
released energy equivalent to roughly 15
kilotons of TNT which decimated the city
within seconds the SU visas eruption
however is estimated to have released
100,000 times more thermal energy than
that
number four the deceased have been made
into body casts you’re probably gonna
want to try to minimize the sweating
they just think cool thoughts in a
fascinating feat of archaeology these
body casts have preserved some of the
victims final moments before death
during early excavations of pompeii
empty voids in the ash were discovered
with human remains in them the Italian
archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorello deduced
that these voids were left by the bodies
of the pyroclastic flow victims and
filled them with plaster creating the
first Pompeii body casts these casts are
so realistic that even various clothes
and facial features are identifiable
some of the more disturbing displays
include an individual and a praying
position and a child resting on their
mother’s lap with a look of content
frozen on their faces number three
Pompeii cemeteries also served as dumps
the graveyards of Pompeii weren’t just
restoring the dead archeologists have
found cemeteries throughout the city
that have been littered with debris
including charred animal bones broken
pottery and discarded tools research
done by the University of Cincinnati
reveals that the citizens of Pompeii had
very lacks rules about garbage disposal
and the city’s cemeteries were placed
alongside heavily traveled roads and
along city walls for everyone to see you
shouldn’t want me here it’s this rice
ball as such they concluded that the
cemeteries were so heavily trashed
because these ancient Romans simply
didn’t care where their garbage was
discarded in their eyes a cemetery was
as good a place as any number two
Vesuvius gave plenty of warnings before
erupting you can’t say that the people
of Pompeii weren’t warned seventeen
years before the eruption a major
earthquake seriously damaged Pompeii
leaving the otherwise luxurious city in
disarray and caused many citizens to
flee as 600 sheep were killed by
poisonous gas in the air some experts
believe that this was an early sign of
the volcano’s awakening while repairs
were still being made in 79 AD strange
things began to happen around Pompeii
wells dried-up vines on the slopes of
Vesuvius wilted and died and there was a
dramatic increase in seismic activity
because tremors were considered normal
for the region the citizens simply shrug
their shoulders and carried on with
business as usual
besides Pompeii was a popular vacation
destination for Romans and nothing kills
a holiday vibe more than impending doom
kind of makes you wonder what it’s like
to live on the edge of catastrophe but
carry on as though everything was fine
he seems at home in the sea but he
cannot swim
indefinitely number one the people of
Pompeii were weirdly obsessed with sex
by some people standards anyway I
spend our last moments running here in
North America we have this prudish
legacy of Puritanism that we’re still
dealing with when it comes to sex but
not so in ancient Rome in Pompeii sex
was a normal and everyday concept of
life and as such the city was littered
with symbols of it brothels were common
complete with explicit graffiti that is
still legible today frescoes containing
images of graphic sexual content
abounded phallic symbols adorn public
areas and there was even a statue made
of the god Pan having sex with a goat
these findings were deemed so
controversial and taboo that King
Francis the first of Naples had them
locked away holding them in the secret
cabinet section of the Naples National
Archaeological Museum due to their
graphic nature the cabinet was closed
for nearly a hundred years although it
was open briefly in the 60s and finally
reopened for viewing in 2000 I guess
modern Italy has that whole Catholic
legacy thing to deal with
so do you want to go and visit Pompeii
for yourself and how would you react it
seeing a pyroclastic flow coming
barreling down towards you for more Sun
blocking top tens and garbage throwing
top fives published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
you
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